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=== Historical Background === | === Historical Background === | ||
The '''Lower Cherokee Traders' Path''' was an important trade route on the Piedmont connecting the Cherokee and other interior tribes with the Occaneechi tribe, middlemen traders in southern Virginia, to the early European colonists on the Chesapeake Bay. It was considered the west fork of the [[Occaneechi Path]] (Traders' Path) and became a major part of the [[Upper Road]]. | The '''Lower Cherokee Traders' Path''' was an important trade route on the Piedmont connecting the Cherokee and other interior tribes with the Occaneechi tribe, middlemen traders in southern Virginia, to the early European colonists on the Chesapeake Bay. It was considered the west fork of the [[Occaneechi Path]] (Traders' Path) and became a major part of the [[Upper Road]]. For a list and map of other South Carolina roads see [[South Carolina Emigration and Immigration#Settlement_Patters|South Carolina Emigration and Immigration]]. | ||
By 1748 the Upper Road was open and settlers began pouring in. At first a few traders, isolated farmers, or innkeepers settled along the path with Cherokee permission. Between 1750 and 1777 the Lower Cherokee Traders path through South Carolina had brought as many 250,000 settlers to the area as the Cherokee Indians ceded more and more lands. In 1760 there was a war between South Carolina and the Cherokee in which most lower Cherokee villages were destroyed. During the Revolutionary War the Cherokee sided with the British. After a Cherokee-British attack in 1776, a Patriot counter-attack drove most of the remaining Cherokee from South Carolina.<ref>Oconee County, Carolina" in South Carolina: The Counties at http://www.carolana.com/SC/Counties/oconee_county_sc.html (accessed 1 February 2011).</ref> | By 1748 the Upper Road was open and settlers began pouring in. At first a few traders, isolated farmers, or innkeepers settled along the path with Cherokee permission. Between 1750 and 1777 the Lower Cherokee Traders path through South Carolina had brought as many 250,000 settlers to the area as the Cherokee Indians ceded more and more lands. In 1760 there was a war between South Carolina and the Cherokee in which most lower Cherokee villages were destroyed. During the Revolutionary War the Cherokee sided with the British. After a Cherokee-British attack in 1776, a Patriot counter-attack drove most of the remaining Cherokee from South Carolina.<ref>Oconee County, Carolina" in South Carolina: The Counties at http://www.carolana.com/SC/Counties/oconee_county_sc.html (accessed 1 February 2011).</ref> | ||