Battle of Great Cane Break

Here along the south side of the creek to Reedy River was fought, Dec. 22, 1775, the Battle of Great Cane Break, between a force of South Carolinians under Colonel William Thompson and a band of Tories under Patrick Cuningham. ...

Cane Break

1050-acre plantation belonging to

Thomas Green Clemson, 1842-1851. Clemson

Charge d'Affaires to Belgium, 1844-1851,

and founder of Clemson University, lived

at Cane Break from January to July 1844.

In his absence Col. Francis Pickens and

Sen. John C. Calhoun often visited Cane

Break and attended to its ...