Old State Road

Old State Road is a South Carolina historical marker in Cayce, Lexington County, dedicated 1965.

Lexington County · dedicated 1965 · Brookland-Cayce High School, 1300 State St., Cayce, Cayce

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This route follows an old Indian trail, which became a trading path and later in 1747 a public road from Charleston to Granby and points west. The State Road laid out by the newly established Board of Public Works in 1820 from Charleston to Columbia and on to the mountains perpetuated one of the oldest and most traveled routes in the development of the South Carolina back country.

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under a mile from where William Gabby lived in the 1760s

what this marker records spans 1777 to 1789, overlapping William Gabby's years here

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Marker data: South Carolina Historical Marker Program, SC Department of Archives and History
Sponsored by West Columbia-Cayce Junior Woman's Club

Old State Road

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