Pickens County

Created December 5, 1853, and named for General Andrew Pickens of Revolutionary fame. The first settlements sprang up along the Old Federal Road which followed in general the route of the highway through Tate, Jasper and Talking Rock. Mount Oglethorpe ...

Old Pickens County Jail

This 1906 jail was built to replace the old rock jail that stood behind the courthouse. The rock jail had replaced the first county jail, a two-story log building. Dr. William B. Tate urged the construction of the jail as ...

Andrew Pickens Ranger District / Oconee County

Andrew Pickens Ranger District Side

The Ranger District was named for Andrew Pickens, an able commander of South Carolina's rebel militia during the American Revolution. Born of Scots-Irish immigrants near Paxtang, Pennsylvania, Pickens served in the state legislature and became a ...

Pickens County Courthouse

Erected 1877-78

Pickens County, named for General Andrew Pickens of South Carolina, was established December 19, 1820. First County Site was Pickensville. On March 5, 1830, the government awarded 80 acres of land at Carrollton for the County Site. The first ...

The Pickens County Museum

American Heroes and Everyday Folk

Pickens County Museum of Art and History

The Pickens County Museum collects, preserves, and exhibits local artifacts. It features exhibits on the Cherokee Indians, General Andrew Pickens, Vice President John C. Calhoun, pioneer life, military history, railroading, ...

Pickens County Veterans Memorial

In Honor of All Men

Who Paid the Supreme Sacrifice

For Freedom in War

Greater love hath no man than this, that

a man lay down his life for his friends.

Marker is on East Main Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

To the Valiant Citizen-Soldiers of Pickens County

To the Valiant Citizen-Soldiers of Pickens County who Answered their Call to Duty and Made the Supreme Sacrifice

For our future generations, their youth, they gave away, never again to see the land between the Oolenoy River Valley and the Keowee ...

Pickens County Congressional Medal of Honor Memorial

Private Charles H. Barker, United States Army

April 12, 1935-June 4, 1953

of

Six Mile

Company K, 17th Infantry Regiment, 7th Infantry Division

Killed in Action at Sokkogae, Korea, June 4 1953

Awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor Posthumously

October ...

Pickens County Buffalo Soldiers

First War Casualties

Private Major Terrell, United States Army

First Pickens County Casualty of World War One

A resident of Hurricane Township in Pickens, Major Terrell joined the U.S. Army in October 1917 and was assigned to the 305th Labor ...