37-16 CHATTOOGA TOWN - Mountain Rest, SC - South Carolina Historical Markers on Waymarking.com

Historic marker on SC Hwy 28 east of the Chattooga River. The marker denotes the location of the Cherokee Chattooga Town. Also at the site is the historic Russell Farm. The marker text is continued on the back side.

Marker text:
Chattooga was one of the Cherokee
“Lower Towns” in what is now S.C.
during the 17th and early 18th
centuries and was a short distance
north in the Chattooga River bottom.
Chattooga Town, in a remote location
in the backcountry, was the smallest
of the Lower Towns in 1721 when it
appeared as “Chattoogie”, with only
90 inhabitants, in that year’s
British census of Cherokee towns.
Side Two
Chattooga Town was on the main trading
path that crossed the Chattooga
River and connected the Lower Towns in
what is now S. C. to those in what
is now Ga. and N. C. Historical and
archaeological research shows that
the town was largely abandoned by
1740; accounts of expeditions to
this area in 1760-61 do not mention
it. Walter Adair, the last Cherokee
to live here, sold his land in 1816.

The marker was placed by the USDA Forest Service, Sumter National Forest in 2007.

Marker Name: CHATTOOGA TOWN Marker Location: Roadside Type of Marker: Highway Marker number: 37-16 County: Oconee

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