Fountain Inn / Caroline Smith Sherman and Dianne Gault Bailey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sherman, Caroline Smith, author.

Bailey, Dianne Gault, author.

Series:

Images of America.

Images of America

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Historic buildings--South Carolina.

Historic buildings.

Fountain Inn (S.C.)--History--Pictorial works.

Fountain Inn (S.C.).

Fountain Inn (S.C.)--Social life and customs--Pictorial works.

South Carolina--Fountain Inn.

Genre:

illustrated books.

Illustrated works.

History.

Pictorial works.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (220 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Charleston, South Carolina : Arcadia Publishing, [2017]

Summary:

Before there was an inn and a fountain, the present town of Fountain Inn was half Indian Territory bisected by the "Old Indian Boundary Line." It was established in 1766 by a treaty made between Old Hop, the head of the Cherokees, and Gov. James Glen of the province of South Carolina. The Cherokees used this area--a region of dense forests, canebrakes, and springs of water--for hunting deer, turkeys, panthers, bears, wolves, wildcats, and even buffalo. Only a few settlers had moved to the territory prior to the Revolutionary War. The Fairview Presbyterian Church community was not settled until 1786. Around 1830, a stagecoach stop was established where there was not only an inn but also a spring of water that gushed two feet in the air like a fountain. In time, the stop became known as Fountain Inn. After the War Between the States, Noah Cannon, a resident of the Greer area, bought up huge tracts of land, and so began the village that was chartered in 1886.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781439660942

1439660948