McCormick County · Marker 33-08

Fort Boone

Mt. Carmel Rd. (S.C. Hwy. 823) south of Old Charleston Rd., Mt. Carmel vicinity

Front inscription

Driven from the area at the start of the Cherokee War, settlers from Long Canes returned in the fall of 1760 and, under the protection of a party of Chickasaw Indians, reclaimed the land by building Fort Boone near here.

County
McCormick

Region
Upstate

City or vicinity
Mt. Carmel vicinity

Year approved
1980

Erected by
McCormick County Historical Commission

Coordinates
34.058717, -82.450967

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