{"id":418,"date":"2025-03-13T17:02:06","date_gmt":"2025-03-13T21:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mccormickscchamber.org\/mc250\/?page_id=418"},"modified":"2025-03-19T15:15:27","modified_gmt":"2025-03-19T19:15:27","slug":"colonial-era-1600s-1774","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mccormickscchamber.org\/mc250\/historical-timelines\/colonial-era-1600s-1774\/","title":{"rendered":"Colonial Era: 1600s-1774"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\">[vc_row column_spacing=&#8221;60&#8243;][vc_column width=&#8221;2\/3&#8243;][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1741899227049{background-image: url(https:\/\/mccormickscchamber.org\/mc250\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/parchment-background.png?id=421) !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}&#8221;]<figure class=\"vcex-image vcex-module\"><div class=\"vcex-image-inner wpex-relative wpex-inline-block\"><img 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cover !important;}&#8221;]<figure class=\"vcex-image vcex-module\"><div class=\"vcex-image-inner wpex-relative wpex-inline-block\"><img width=\"1200\" height=\"3000\" src=\"https:\/\/mccormickscchamber.org\/mc250\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/McCormick-County-250-Historical-Timeline-Colonial-Era-05.png\" class=\"vcex-image-img wpex-align-middle\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mccormickscchamber.org\/mc250\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/McCormick-County-250-Historical-Timeline-Colonial-Era-05.png 1200w, https:\/\/mccormickscchamber.org\/mc250\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/McCormick-County-250-Historical-Timeline-Colonial-Era-05-120x300.png 120w, https:\/\/mccormickscchamber.org\/mc250\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/McCormick-County-250-Historical-Timeline-Colonial-Era-05-410x1024.png 410w, https:\/\/mccormickscchamber.org\/mc250\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/McCormick-County-250-Historical-Timeline-Colonial-Era-05-768x1920.png 768w, https:\/\/mccormickscchamber.org\/mc250\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/McCormick-County-250-Historical-Timeline-Colonial-Era-05-614x1536.png 614w, https:\/\/mccormickscchamber.org\/mc250\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/McCormick-County-250-Historical-Timeline-Colonial-Era-05-819x2048.png 819w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/div><\/figure>[\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/3&#8243;]<div class=\"vcex-heading vcex-heading-plain vcex-module wpex-heading wpex-text-2xl\"><span class=\"vcex-heading-inner wpex-inline-block\">All Historical Timelines<\/span><\/div><div class=\"vcex-module vcex-divider vcex-divider-solid vcex-divider-center wpex-mx-auto wpex-block wpex-h-0 wpex-border-b wpex-border-solid wpex-border-main\" style=\"margin-block-start:20px;margin-block-end:25px;border-color:var(--wpex-palette-59-color);\"><\/div><style>.wpex-post-cards.vcex_69f0bebd29aa9 .wpex-post-cards-loop .wpex-card-title{font-size:var(--wpex-text-base);}<\/style><div class=\"wpex-post-cards wpex-post-cards-simple_4 vcex_69f0bebd29aa9 wpex-relative\"><div class=\"wpex-post-cards-inner\"><div class=\"wpex-post-cards-loop wpex-post-cards-grid wpex-row wpex-clr\"><div class=\"wpex-post-cards-entry col col-1 span_1_of_1 post-418 type-page cat-6\"><div class=\"wpex-card wpex-card-simple_4\"><h2 class=\"wpex-card-title wpex-heading wpex-text-xl\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mccormickscchamber.org\/mc250\/historical-timelines\/colonial-era-1600s-1774\/\">Colonial Era: 1600s-1774<\/a><\/h2><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>[\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row disable_element=&#8221;yes&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1741719294427{padding-top: 120px !important;padding-right: 40px !important;padding-bottom: 120px !important;padding-left: 40px !important;background-image: url(https:\/\/mccormickscchamber.org\/mc250\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/parchment-background.png?id=421) !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}&#8221; wpex_bg_position=&#8221;top&#8221;][vc_column]<style>.vcex-feature-box.vcex_69f0bebd2ae03{text-align:center;padding-block:30px;}.vcex-feature-box.vcex_69f0bebd2ae03 .vcex-feature-box-heading{font-size:var(--wpex-text-4xl);}.vcex-feature-box.vcex_69f0bebd2ae03 .vcex-feature-box-content{background:#ffffff;}<\/style><div class=\"vcex-module vcex-feature-box wpex-flex wpex-flex-col wpex-sm-flex-row wpex-justify-between timeline-entry left-image-right-content v-align-middle wpex-sm-items-center vcex_69f0bebd2ae03\"><div class=\"vcex-feature-box-media wpex-sm-w-50\"><div class=\"vcex-feature-box-image wpex-relative wpex-sm-text-left\"><img width=\"382\" height=\"469\" src=\"https:\/\/mccormickscchamber.org\/mc250\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/timeline-colonial-1-late-1600s.png\" class=\"wpex-align-middle wpex-object-cover\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mccormickscchamber.org\/mc250\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/timeline-colonial-1-late-1600s.png 382w, https:\/\/mccormickscchamber.org\/mc250\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/timeline-colonial-1-late-1600s-244x300.png 244w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 382px) 100vw, 382px\" \/><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vcex-feature-box-content wpex-sm-w-50 wpex-p-30\"><h2 class=\"vcex-feature-box-heading wpex-heading wpex-mb-20\">Late 1600s<\/h2><div class=\"vcex-feature-box-text wpex-last-mb-0 wpex-clr\"><p><span class=\"OYPEnA font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">In 1685, the English established the<\/span><strong><span class=\"OYPEnA font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\"> Isandiga Trail<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"OYPEnA font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\"> as a trade route with the Cherokee Nation. This route, later mostly superseded by <strong>\u201c<\/strong><\/span><strong><span class=\"OYPEnA font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">The Cherokee Path<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"OYPEnA font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\"><strong>\u201d<\/strong> through the village of <\/span><strong><span class=\"OYPEnA font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">Ninety-Six<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"OYPEnA font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">, followed the Savannah River from the future town of Beech Island through present-day McCormick County. European settlers increasingly encroached on Cherokee territory and bloodshed ultimately resulted.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><style>.vcex-feature-box.vcex_69f0bebd2bd92{text-align:center;padding-block:30px;}.vcex-feature-box.vcex_69f0bebd2bd92 .vcex-feature-box-heading{font-size:var(--wpex-text-4xl);}.vcex-feature-box.vcex_69f0bebd2bd92 .vcex-feature-box-content{background:#ffffff;}<\/style><div class=\"vcex-module vcex-feature-box wpex-flex wpex-flex-col wpex-sm-flex-row-reverse wpex-justify-between timeline-entry left-content-right-image v-align-middle wpex-sm-items-center vcex_69f0bebd2bd92\"><div class=\"vcex-feature-box-media wpex-sm-w-50\"><div class=\"vcex-feature-box-image wpex-relative wpex-sm-text-right\"><img width=\"380\" height=\"367\" src=\"https:\/\/mccormickscchamber.org\/mc250\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/timeline-colonial-1-1743.png\" class=\"wpex-align-middle wpex-object-cover\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mccormickscchamber.org\/mc250\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/timeline-colonial-1-1743.png 380w, https:\/\/mccormickscchamber.org\/mc250\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/timeline-colonial-1-1743-300x290.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 380px) 100vw, 380px\" \/><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vcex-feature-box-content wpex-sm-w-50 wpex-p-30\"><h2 class=\"vcex-feature-box-heading wpex-heading wpex-mb-20\">1743<\/h2><div class=\"vcex-feature-box-text wpex-last-mb-0 wpex-clr\"><p><span class=\"OYPEnA font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">The South Carolina Assembly, fearful of Native American attacks and rebellion by slaves, which vastly outnumbered whites, passed an act to encourage frontier settlement by white Protestants as a buffer against the former and to offset the latter, offering land, transportation, provisions, tools, and livestock. This hastened movement into the Back Country, as it came to be articulated.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><style>.vcex-feature-box.vcex_69f0bebd2c5ef{text-align:center;padding-block:30px;}.vcex-feature-box.vcex_69f0bebd2c5ef .vcex-feature-box-heading{font-size:var(--wpex-text-4xl);}.vcex-feature-box.vcex_69f0bebd2c5ef .vcex-feature-box-content{background:#ffffff;}<\/style><div class=\"vcex-module vcex-feature-box wpex-flex wpex-flex-col wpex-sm-flex-row wpex-justify-between timeline-entry left-image-right-content v-align-middle wpex-sm-items-center vcex_69f0bebd2c5ef\"><div class=\"vcex-feature-box-media wpex-sm-w-50\"><div class=\"vcex-feature-box-image wpex-relative wpex-sm-text-left\"><img width=\"432\" height=\"295\" src=\"https:\/\/mccormickscchamber.org\/mc250\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/timeline-colonial-1-feb-12-1747.png\" class=\"wpex-align-middle wpex-object-cover\" alt=\"Long Cane Creek\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mccormickscchamber.org\/mc250\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/timeline-colonial-1-feb-12-1747.png 432w, https:\/\/mccormickscchamber.org\/mc250\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/timeline-colonial-1-feb-12-1747-300x205.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 432px) 100vw, 432px\" \/><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vcex-feature-box-content wpex-sm-w-50 wpex-p-30\"><h2 class=\"vcex-feature-box-heading wpex-heading wpex-mb-20\">February 12, 1747<\/h2><div class=\"vcex-feature-box-text wpex-last-mb-0 wpex-clr\"><p><span class=\"OYPEnA font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">Thousands of acres were purchased from the Cherokee around the outpost of Ninety-Six to Long Cane Creek. The Cherokee Nation boundary was noted as the \u201cDividing Waters\u201d of <\/span><strong><span class=\"OYPEnA font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">Long Cane Creek<\/span><span class=\"OYPEnA font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><style>.vcex-feature-box.vcex_69f0bebd2ce53{text-align:center;padding-block:30px;}.vcex-feature-box.vcex_69f0bebd2ce53 .vcex-feature-box-heading{font-size:var(--wpex-text-4xl);}.vcex-feature-box.vcex_69f0bebd2ce53 .vcex-feature-box-content{background:#ffffff;}<\/style><div class=\"vcex-module vcex-feature-box wpex-flex wpex-flex-col wpex-sm-flex-row-reverse wpex-justify-between timeline-entry left-content-right-image v-align-middle wpex-sm-items-center vcex_69f0bebd2ce53\"><div class=\"vcex-feature-box-media wpex-sm-w-50\"><div class=\"vcex-feature-box-image wpex-relative wpex-sm-text-center\"><img width=\"430\" height=\"286\" src=\"https:\/\/mccormickscchamber.org\/mc250\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/timeline-colonial-1-1754-1762.png\" class=\"wpex-align-middle wpex-object-cover\" alt=\"1754-1762\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mccormickscchamber.org\/mc250\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/timeline-colonial-1-1754-1762.png 430w, https:\/\/mccormickscchamber.org\/mc250\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/timeline-colonial-1-1754-1762-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 430px) 100vw, 430px\" \/><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vcex-feature-box-content wpex-sm-w-50 wpex-p-30\"><h2 class=\"vcex-feature-box-heading wpex-heading wpex-mb-20\">1754-1762<\/h2><div class=\"vcex-feature-box-text wpex-last-mb-0 wpex-clr\"><p><span class=\"OYPEnA font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">Escalating conflicts between the French, English, and Native populations resulted in the French &amp; Indian War in the northern colonies. Immigrant families from mostly Virginia and Pennsylvania fled south. These mostly Scots-Irish families followed the <\/span><span class=\"OYPEnA font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">\u201c<strong>Great Wagon Road\u201d<\/strong><\/span><span class=\"OYPEnA font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\"> ending at the growing village of Ninety-Six.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><style>.vcex-feature-box.vcex_69f0bebd2d712{text-align:center;padding-block:30px;}.vcex-feature-box.vcex_69f0bebd2d712 .vcex-feature-box-heading{font-size:var(--wpex-text-4xl);}.vcex-feature-box.vcex_69f0bebd2d712 .vcex-feature-box-content{background:#ffffff;}<\/style><div class=\"vcex-module vcex-feature-box wpex-flex wpex-flex-col wpex-sm-flex-row wpex-justify-between timeline-entry left-image-right-content v-align-middle wpex-sm-items-center vcex_69f0bebd2d712\"><div class=\"vcex-feature-box-media wpex-sm-w-50\"><div class=\"vcex-feature-box-image wpex-relative wpex-sm-text-center\"><img width=\"394\" height=\"459\" src=\"https:\/\/mccormickscchamber.org\/mc250\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/timeline-colonial-1-feb-1756.png\" class=\"wpex-align-middle wpex-object-cover\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mccormickscchamber.org\/mc250\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/timeline-colonial-1-feb-1756.png 394w, https:\/\/mccormickscchamber.org\/mc250\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/timeline-colonial-1-feb-1756-258x300.png 258w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 394px) 100vw, 394px\" \/><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vcex-feature-box-content wpex-sm-w-50 wpex-p-30\"><h2 class=\"vcex-feature-box-heading wpex-heading wpex-mb-20\">February 1756<\/h2><div class=\"vcex-feature-box-text wpex-last-mb-0 wpex-clr\"><p><span class=\"OYPEnA font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">The Scots-Irish, led by the <\/span><span class=\"OYPEnA font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\"><strong>Calhoun family<\/strong>,<\/span><span class=\"OYPEnA font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\"> acquired land east of <\/span><strong><span class=\"OYPEnA font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">Long Cane Creek<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"OYPEnA font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\"> in the Ninety-Six District, part of which is now McCormick County and initially built <\/span><strong><span class=\"OYPEnA font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">Fort Long Cane<\/span><span class=\"OYPEnA font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">. <\/span><span class=\"OYPEnA font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">John C. 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