Oconee Town

Oconee Town is a South Carolina historical marker in Walhalla vicinity, Oconee County, dedicated 2006.

Oconee County · dedicated 2006 · Oconee Station State Historic Site, 500 Oconee Station Rd., Walhalla vicinity, Walhalla vicinity

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Oconee, also spelled “Aconnee,” was one of the Cherokee “Lower Towns” in what is now S.C. At the base of Oconee Mountain and on the main trading path between the British and Cherokees, it was abandoned in 1752. Oconee Station was built in 1792 as an outpost where the path crossed the Cherokee boundary. This county, created from Pickens District in 1868, was named for Oconee Town.

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

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