Oconee County · Marker 37-12

Oconee Town

Oconee Station State Historic Site, 500 Oconee Station Rd., Walhalla vicinity

Front inscription

Oconee, also spelled “Aconnee,” was one of the Cherokee “Lower Towns” in what is now S.C. At the base of Oconee Mountain and on the main trading path between the British and Cherokees, it was abandoned in 1752. Oconee Station was built in 1792 as an outpost where the path crossed the Cherokee boundary. This county, created from Pickens District in 1868, was named for Oconee Town.

County
Oconee
Region
Upstate
City or vicinity
Walhalla vicinity
Year approved
2006
Erected by
Oconee County Arts and Historical Commission and the South Carolina Heritage Corridor
Coordinates
34.840467, -83.066267

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