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Grogan’s Mill
- The Woodlands now contains nine villages: Grogan’s Mill, Panther Creek, Cochran’s Crossing, Indian Springs, Alden Bridge, Sterling Ridge, College Park, Carlton Woods and Creekside Park. The Village of Grogan’s Mill was the first village and opened in 1974.
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Apr 15, 2016 · By the mid–seventeenth century, Cherokee settlements in South Carolina, known as the lower towns, included Seneca, Keowee, Toxaway, and Jocassee. Stable villages were possible because of the Cherokees’ reliance on agriculture, especially corn.
Apr 15, 2016 · The Cherokee Path was one of the most important trade networks of early Carolina, connecting the city of Charleston with the Cherokee Indians of South Carolina, Georgia, North Carolina, and Tennessee.
The land was fertile, with rolling hills and clay soil, which allowed the people of the Eastern Woodlands to developed farming. Because they farmed, the Woodland Natives settled into more permanent villages than their nomadic ancestors.
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The first inhabitants of present-day South Carolina likely arrived about 11,000–12,000 years ago. Hunting and gathering typified their first 10 millennia, but they developed agriculture about 1000 bce. The Mississippian cultures, the most advanced in the southeastern region of pre-Columbian North America, arrived about 1100 ce with their complex so...
The first inhabitants of present-day South Carolina likely arrived about 11,000–12,000 years ago. Hunting and gathering typified their first 10 millennia, but they developed agriculture about 1000 bce. The Mississippian cultures, the most advanced in the southeastern region of pre-Columbian North America, arrived about 1100 ce with their complex so...
The first Europeans to visit South Carolina, in 1521, were Spanish explorers from Santo Domingo (Hispaniola). In 1526 Lucas Vásquez de Ayllón founded what is believed to have been the first white European settlement in South Carolina, but this Spanish colony failed within a few months. French Protestants under Jean Ribaut made an unsuccessful attempt to occupy the area of Port Royal (one of the Sea Islands) in 1562. A few years later, in 1566, the Spanish returned and established Santa Elena on nearby Parris Island. It was an important Spanish base until 1587.
In 1665 Edward Hyde, 1st earl of Clarendon, and seven other members of the British nobility received a charter from King Charles II to establish the colony of Carolina (named for the king) in a vast territory between latitudes 29° and 36°30′ N and from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean. These eight grantees were known as the lords proprietor of Carolina, and they were free to dispose of the land as they pleased. Following the initiative of the lords proprietor (or their deputies), the English made the first permanent settlement in the region, on the west bank of the Ashley River at Albemarle Point, in 1670. A decade later, the government and most inhabitants moved to a more favourable location on the nearby peninsula formed by the Ashley and Cooper rivers, the site of Charleston today. The colony grew slowly and by 1720 had a population of about 19,000, settled almost exclusively along the coast. Trade with the native peoples and the export of deerskins constituted the major sources of income, complemented by naval stores (turpentine, tar, and other pine products) after 1710. Conflicts with the lords proprietor over economic support, trade with local peoples, and the authority of the Commons House (the colony’s representative assembly) resulted in the overthrow of proprietary rule and the conversion of Carolina to a royal colony in 1719.
On US 78, three miles south of Bamberg, near the community of Midway. Origin of name – Other names – Simms Place, William Gilmore Simms Estate. Current status – Designated a National Historic Landmark, Woodlands is open by appointment and used by the Simms family for hunting and retreats.
Along the South Carolina coast the Woodland Period occurs as early as 2000 B.C., while in the Piedmont this cultural tradition begins about 1000 B.C. It is gradually replaced in most areas of South Carolina by the South Appalachian Mississippian Period around A.D. 1100.
Woodlands was the country home of William Gilmore Simms (1806-1870), the most prominent and prolific writer of the antebellum South, from 1836 to his death.
