Welcome to York County:
York County and its county seat were named for York
County, Pennsylvania. The county was first established
in 1785 as part of Camden District. From 1791 to 1800 it
was part of Pinckney District, and it became a separate
district when Pinckney was dissolved in 1800. Part of
the county went to form Cherokee County in 1897. When
European settlers arrived, this part of the state was
inhabited by the Catawba Indians. The Catawbas signed a
treaty with the English in 1763, relinquishing their
rights to much of their land. This treaty opened up the
area to Scotch-Irish settlers moving down from
Pennsylvania and up from the lowcountry. The Catawba
Nation is now the only federally-recognized Indian tribe
in the state. Two battles were fought in this area
during the Revolutionary War, Williamson's Plantation
(July 12, 1780) and Kings Mountain (October 7, 1780);
the latter battle was a major victory for the Americans.
Small-scale cotton farming was prevalent in the county
in the nineteenth century, but textile mills became
important in the twentieth century, contributing to the
growth of the county's largest city, Rock Hill.
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