![]() ![]() A Presbyterian “preaching station” was established there in 1794, but was abandoned in 1800 because members could not support a minister. Later a Baptist congregation built a frame meeting house called Rehobeth that later was sold to Methodists. Planters began clearing forests, planted orchards, grew corn and wheat, experimented with indigo and flax, and maintained cider presses and distilleries.īaptists among them may have worshipped at Brushy Creek, since it was evidently not until the 1830s that they built a church, Mt. Plantations flourished around the creek and along the paths to Wilson’s Ferry (Pelzer after 1880) and Holland’s Ford on the Saluda. Since road names marked destinations, in Golden Grove the road to the Augusta Road trade route in the village was the Greenville Road in the village it became Grove Road. A few days earlier, legislators appointed nine landowners to its first court, which probably met at John Ford’s plantation on Golden Grove Creek in May 1786.Ībout 1795, the court (the seat of government) moved to a more central location on the Reedy River where Lemuel Alston soon laid out the village he named “Pleasantburg,” although the name “Greenville Courthouse” was already established. It was in this plantation country that Greenville began, where its first laws were made and large landowners began sprawling across the countryside.Īlthough the land was open for settlement in 1784, the General Assembly didn’t charter “Greeneville County” until March 28, 1786. In 1776, Patriots confiscated a number of them from “Cammeron’s Cowpens” on Golden Grove Creek in southwestern Greenville County.īecause that 11-mile-long creek flowed through the “good red land” near the Saluda River, its waters were dyed yellow by the soil and its banks glittered with ground mica, amethyst and granite, giving the stream its name. Some of the cattle that grazed here belonged to Alexander Cameron, the King’s Deputy Indian Commissioner. White settlers - but not, evidently, their cows - were barred from the place, although they clustered around its borders. What is now Greenville County was Cherokee hunting ground before the American Revolution. ![]()
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