Four Holes Indian Community

Front: Around 1910, Native American families living in the Creeltown community (approx. 6 mi. W) began resettling in this area along Four Holes Swamp. Additional families later moved from the former Osbourne community in southern Dorchester Co. By the 1920s there was a church and school that served local Native residents. More than 270 people lived in Four Holes in 1969, nearly all of them Native. Reverse: Tradition holds those who settled at Creeltown, Four Holes, and Osbourne were descended from the Kusso and Natchex tribes. The Kussoes lived in the Lowcountry by the 1500s. Members of the Natchez lived near Four Holes Swamp by 1738 after being driven from the Lower Mississippi River Valley by the French. In 2010 their descendents were recognized by the State of S.C. as the Edisto Natchez-Kusso Tribe.