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Steen Family Cemetery

Cherokee County · dedicated 2011 · El Bethel Rd. (S.C. Sec. Rd. 11-15) at the bridge over Thicketty Creek, Gaffney vicinity, Gaffney vicinity

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The family cemetery of Lt. Col. James Steen (d. 1781), S.C. militia officer during the American Revolution, is on his plantation nearby, along Thicketty Creek. Steen, who commanded units in several campaigns from 1775 to 1781, was killed in 1781 while attempting to arrest a Loyalist in N.C.

David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

Marker data: South Carolina Historical Marker Program, SC Department of Archives and History

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