Greenville County · Marker 23-03

Battle of Great Cane Brake

Fork Shoals Rd., S of One Hundred Rd. (S.C. Sec. Rd. 23-565)

Front inscription

Here along the south side of the creek to Reedy River was fought, Dec. 22, 1775, the Battle of Great Cane Brake between a force of South Carolinians under Colonel William Thomson and a band of Tories under Patrick Cuningham. The Tories were completely routed, and Cuningham himself narrowly escaped.

County
Greenville

Region
Upstate

City or vicinity
Simpsonville

Year approved
1941

Erected by
Behethland Butler Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution

Coordinates
34.656117, -82.316383

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