Fort Long Cane & Colonial Mill Historical Markers
MAP# 11
GPS: 34.0136412, -82.3432092
(Colonial Mill Historical Marker Forthcoming - Fort Long Cane Historical Marker not currently approved by SCDAH, citing insufficient era specific documentary reference, in spite of substantial information & evidence provided & offered)
The fort was a twin-palisaded enclosure raised by Scots-Irish settlers, staunch Patriots, on an eastern bluff overlooking Long Cane Creek shortly upon arrival, who established the Long Cane settlement in 1756.
Benjamin Watson built this Long Cane Creek grist mill circa 1766/67 that was next owned by Andrew McComb, a Loyalist soldier among those who withstood the May-June, 1781 Ninety Six Star Fort siege led by Continental General Greene.
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Things to See
Colonial Mill Ruins (on PRIVATE PROPERTY) only publicly viewable across Long Cane Creek from NFS land along the west bank or via canoe/kayak on the creek