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McCormick County and its county
seat, the town of McCormick, were
named for inventor Cyrus Hall
McCormick (1809-1884). The county
was formed in 1916 from parts of
Edgefield, Abbeville, and Greenwood
counties.
This area was settled in the
mid-eighteenth century by
Scotch-Irish, French Huguenot, and
German farmers. Some of the early
inhabitants were massacred by
Cherokee Indians at Long Cane in
1760, and the British subsequently
built Fort Charlotte to protect the
region; this fort was one of the
first seized by the Americans in the
Revolutionary War.
About 1850 gold was discovered where
the town of McCormick now stands.
The Dorn Gold Mine, which later also
produced manganese, was bought by
Cyrus McCormick in 1869; he donated
land for the town, which was named
for him in 1882. This mine continued
to operate until the 1930s. Several
prominent South Carolinians have
resided in the area that is now
McCormick County, including governor
and U. S. senator George McDuffie
(1790-1851), Unionist leader James
Louis Petigru (1789-1863), and Moses
Waddel (1770-1840), who taught many
of the future leaders of the state
at his Willington Academy.
Info from:
http://www.townofmccormicksc.org/about_town.php
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Neighboring Counties:
Abbeville,
Greenwood,
Edgefield
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