Fort Boone

Fort Boone is a South Carolina historical marker in Mt. Carmel vicinity, McCormick County, dedicated 1980.

McCormick County · dedicated 1980 · Mt. Carmel Rd. (S.C. Hwy. 823) south of Old Charleston Rd., Mt. Carmel vicinity, Mt. Carmel vicinity

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Driven from the area at the start of the Cherokee War, settlers from Long Canes returned in the fall of 1760 and, under the protection of a party of Chickasaw Indians, reclaimed the land by building Fort Boone near here.

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Marker data: South Carolina Historical Marker Program, SC Department of Archives and History
Sponsored by McCormick County Historical Commission

Fort Boone

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