|
keywords for this web are: Cherokee County, GenWeb, Genealogy, geneology, gaffney, blacksburg, South Carolina, SC, Carolina, Family Tree, Research, History, Surname, links, USGenWeb, AmerIndian, Native American, SCGenWeb
|
Did you remember to use
refresh
on the page in order to see any recent changes?
|
|
some pages are graphic or table intense - please wait for the page to load [41 seconds at 56k]...
|
|
A
transcription of the 1910 Cherokee County SC census has been placed online
as a part of the USGenWeb Census Project. This transcription has not
been edited or reviewed and a volunteer is needed. Visit
Welcome
to this archived page of the Cherokee County SCGenWeb, a project of USGenWeb
and SCGenWeb.
The USGenWeb Project and SCGenWeb
Project are non-commercial, all-volunteer organizations and are not
connected in any way with USGenWeb., Inc., an Idaho
corporation. For information on Cherokee County or adopting this or any
other SCGenWeb county site,
please contact Victoria Proctor,
keywords for this web are: Cherokee County,
GenWeb, Genealogy, geneology, gaffney, blacksburg, South Carolina, SC, Carolina,
Family Tree, Research, History, Surname, links, USGenWeb
A Little About Cherokee County South Carolina
Cherokee County South Carolina is located in the upstate section of South Carolina east of the Blue Ridge Mountains and south of the North Carolina piedmont.
The county was formed in 1897 from parts of York, Spartanburg, and Union Counties. [See this 1895 map of what is now Cherokee County to determine where your research should begin.] This makes us a relatively new county without much of the historical record keeping that some others have. Even so, we are a community rich in history. We are bordered by our parent counties on three sides and by the North Carolina counties of Cleveland and Rutherford to the north. We are reached by Interstate 85 and US29. The county seat is Gaffney. There is a great picture of the Limestone Street business district as it was in 1912 on the Gaffney postcard page. Prior to about the 1930's, Cherokee County industry was primarily agricultural. From then until relatively recently the county has relied on textiles and manufacturing.
The Naming of Cherokee County South Carolina
Cherokee County seems to have been so named for as
much political reasons as any other. It seems to have originally
been a move to encourage a positive vote from the residents of the area around
Cherokee Falls and those of the Cherokee Township to support formation of a new
county with separation from York, Spartanburg, and Union Counties in 1897.
Reasoning that
Cherokee Falls was among the earliest villages in the area and that the area had
been home to the Cherokee Nation before 1750 led
to general acceptance of the name throughout the area.
In a vote on the name of the new county, Cherokee won over Limestone by a landslide.
primary source - The Gaffney Ledger at A Slice of History
It is clear from early (pre-1800) historical accounts of the area, that the Broad River was the western boundary of the Catawba Nation and that same boundary was the eastern boundary of the Cherokee Nation. [see our Native Research Page for more on this] There are scant indications that either nation frequented the area, instead considering it "no mans land" between the two boundaries. There probably should be some archaeological study in the areas around the Broad River and the known trading path through the county to determine the influence of the native nations in what is now Cherokee County. There are anthropological and genealogical indications that descendants of the early native nations still reside in the communities that make up Cherokee County South Carolina.
History and formation of Cherokee County South Carolina
 |
|
|
A list of the several communities within Cherokee County can be found on the History and Formation Page as well. |
Many
researchers fail to determine the geographic significance of the location of
their ancestors. Looking for records in a county based on the present
location of the homestead can be frustrating at best when county names
change -- likewise, trying to find a cemetery in one county when the
political location of the cemetery changed by county formation can be just
as annoying. Here we present Native Americans
|
|
Many folks write to us asking for information about their Native American
ancestors. We've added a page of information particularly for that
query. Just follow this link -----> Veterans - Civil War, Spanish-American War, WWI, WWII, Korea, Vietnam...
|
|
|
Cemeteries in Cherokee County
|
|
|
We've
always found some very good source information in cemeteries and cemetery
transcriptions. To that end we've compiled a list of transcriptions
available online. These are not all our own work and there is always
need for more transcriptions.Research Links...
|
|
|
We're rebuilding the page of links on our web. Just follow this link to more
links ----> Records Archives
|
|
|
You
can visit (and hopefully contribute to) the Cherokee County Archives
of the SCGenWeb Project by following this link ---->
Message and Query Board
|
|
|
The fine folks at Mailing List - ListServ...
|
|
|
We also administer one of the Rootsweb mailing lists. The list is
specifically for Cherokee County SC Genealogy. For more information
about the SCCherok-L mailing list just follow this link ----> |
|
 |
|