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- 72 - . CHAPTER 8 FAIRFIELD COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA Fairfield County is situated in the "Up Country" or Piedmont section, north central part of South Carolina. It is directly north of Columbia, SC, the capitol of the state. lt has an area of 706 square miles. Winnsboro, SC, twenty-five miles North of Columbia, is the county seat. This was originally Cherokee territory and was ceded by that tribe in Glen's Treaty of 1755. The Catawba-Wateree River is its eastern boundary; the Broad River is its western boundary. At Blair's, in the western part of the county, the elevation is 295 feet above sea level; at Ridgeway the elevation is 625 feet. Charleston had been settled in 1670, and it appears from best available records that a few people began to settle in what later became Fairfield County about 1750. The Feasterville Community, as it is now known, is in the western section of the county, on Beaver Creek, a few miles from where it enters the Broad. - 73 - . [HAND DRAWN MAP OF AREA] [MAP OF FAIRFIELD DISTRICT, SOUTH CAROLINA]
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