Lancaster County · Marker 29-07
King Hagler's Murder
Rock Hill Hwy. (S.C. Hwy. 5), 2 mi. W of Charlotte Hwy. (U.S. Hwy. 521), Van Wyck vicinity
Front inscription
On the Catawba Path near here/King Hagler,/Chief of the Catawba Nation/(1750-1763),/was slain on August 30, 1763, by a raiding band of northern Indian braves as he journeyed from the Waxhaws Settlement on Cane Creek to a Catawba town on Twelve Mile Creek.