Lexington County · Marker 32-06

Old State Road

Brookland-Cayce High School, 1300 State St., Cayce

Front inscription

This route follows an old Indian trail, which became a trading path and later in 1747 a public road from Charleston to Granby and points west. The State Road laid out by the newly established Board of Public Works in 1820 from Charleston to Columbia and on to the mountains perpetuated one of the oldest and most traveled routes in the development of the South Carolina back country.

County
Lexington
Region
Midlands
City or vicinity
Cayce
Year approved
1965
Erected by
West Columbia-Cayce Junior Woman's Club
Coordinates
33.981667, -81.055267

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