Chapter 08: Fairfield County, South Carolina.

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Chapter 08:  Fairfield County, South Carolina.

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     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.


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                          [HAND DRAWN MAP OF AREA]









                [MAP OF FAIRFIELD DISTRICT, SOUTH CAROLINA]


 


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