A 56-acre property in Travelers Rest once slated for subdivision development has been acquired by the SC DNR Heritage Trust and added to the adjacent Blackwell Heritage Preserve. Upstate Forever and other partners opposed the development, called Bluestone Ridge, because it would have seriously

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Fall 2024 Digital Edition Our 96 page booklet is full of information to help you plan the best trip possible. Located in the northwest corner of South Carolina, in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, Oconee County is within a half day drive from metropolitan areas in the southeast. From Greenville, SC: 50 minutesFrom […]

Cherokee Indians, Cherokee Tribe. A powerful detached tribe of the Iroquoian family, formerly holding the whole mountain region of the south Alleghenies.

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It was here in the Burt-Stark Mansion, also known as the Burt House or the Armistead Burt House, in Abbeville, South Carolina, that President Jefferson Davis met with his cabinet for the last Confederate States of America Council of War, May 2, 1865. Just three weeks ealier, on April 9, 1865 General Robert E. Lee had surrendered his Army of Northern Virginia to General George T. Sherman at Appomattox Courthouse. Many people regard Lee's surrender as the end of the War Between the States, but actually only a portion of the Confederate Army surrendered at that time. On April 26, 1869, Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston followed Lee by surrendering his Army of Tennessee, also to General Sherman, near Greensboro, North Carolina. One of my great uncles, John Tomas Conn, was among those who surrendered with Johnston. However, when the last Confederate Council of War met there were still other very detemined Confederate armies fighting in the field, including the Alabama, Mississippi and East Louisiana Department, the Trans-Mississippi (Texas) Department, and others. President Davis wanted to continue the struggle for Southern Independence. However, despite the righteousness of the Confederate cause, the Council persuaded Davis that to continue fighting against such overwhelming odds was futile. Just two days later, May 4, 1865, Confederate Lt. Gen. Richard Taylor, son of former U.S. president Zachary Taylor, surrendered the Confederate Department of Alabama, Mississippi, and East Louisiana, with some 12,000 troops. The last land fight of the War occurred May 12--13 May at Palmito Ranch, Texas, where 350 Confederates of the Trans-Mississippi Department were victorious over 800 invading Federals. Afterwards, after learning that Richmond had fallen and that General Robert E. Lee had surrendered, the Trans-Mississippi Confederates gave up their fight for Independence. Most of the soldiers simply went home, but some 2000 of them fled into Mexico, either alone or in scattered groups. Last of the Confederate Generals to surrender was Brigadier General Stand Waite of Oklahoma. Stand Waite was also a Chief of the Cherokee Nation. Fighting until the bitter end, General Waite finally surrendered his battalion of Cherokee, Creek, Seminole, and Osage Indians on June 23. 1865. There was never a formal surrender by the Confederate States of America. No peace treaty or armistice was ever signed, and it could be argued that the Confederate States of America is still an occupied nation. A week after that fateful last Council of War in Abbeville, during the early morning hours of May 10, 1865, President Davis and a large entourage traveling with him, was captured by the Fourth Michigan Calvary in Irwinsville, Georgia. The Burt-Stark Mansion was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1992 because of its importance as the last meeting place of the leadership of the Confederate nation.

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In 1904, the Eastern Cherokees won large cash settlements from the United States because of violations of the treaties of 1835-36 and 1845. Over a million dollars was appropriated by Congress to settle the claims. The payments were to go to all living persons who had been members of the Eastern Cherokee tribe at the time of the treaty, or to their descendants if they were deceased. Over 46,000 people filed claims. This series of volumes presents detailed abstracts of those applications including numerous verbatim transcriptions of affidavits by the applicants, their families and friends. Since most of the applicants were descendants, rather than original tribe members, and had to prove their descent, the quantity of genealogical information in these volumes is staggering. About nine-tenths of the applicants lived west of the Mississippi in the early 1900s when they made their applications, with the balance living predominantly in the southeast. Although the applicants had to have Indian ancestry, the majority were nominally white; a significant number of blacks are also included. There is a complete name index. Jerry Wright Jordan (1988), 2005, 5½x8½, paper, index, 502 pp. ISBN: 9781556131110 101-J0111

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The 3.8-mile Sulphur Springs Trail in South Carolina leads through an enchanted forest to a picturesque mountain lake, dam, and tower.

This volume traces the family immigration route from Alzey (a small village in Germany), to Holland, to London, to New York; from upstate New York to Virginia, then to North Carolina, South Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee and Louisiana. It encompasses their participation in the making of American Frontier history on several fronts: early wilderness settlement; Indian fighting; and militia service in the French and Indian, Revolutionary, and 1812 wars. Were they fiction, the true documented adventures of some of our ancestors would make them heroes in any early American historical novel. Over 200 maps and photographs show where our Starnes/Starns ancestors lived, farmed, fought, died and are buried from the Hudson valley in New York to the Holston and Clinch in Virginia; the Kentucky River, Cane Creek in North Carolina; Lee and Nolichucky valleys in Tennessee; and the Tickfaw in Louisiana. Numerous lines and branches are presented in the extensive genealogical listings. This writing makes available an enlightening, entertaining narrative with supporting genetic lineages of this extremely colorful old family in the annals of American history. The detailed historical account and genealogical data contained in this compilation will allow most Stanes/Starns descendants to trace their individual line of ancestry. Appendices address the unrelated English Stearns/Starns line and the apparently related early family of Charles Starnes in South Carolina. The probabilities of direct immigration to Virginia and North Carolina from Europe are also discussed, as is that via Pennsylvania. Unable to make the New York Palatine connection, earlier searchers surmised that the old Virginia Starnes family of German descent must have come directly from Germany or Pennsylvania. H. Gerald Starnes and Herman Starnes (2002), 2010, 5½x8½, cloth, index, 814 pp. ISBN: 9780788421419 101-S2141