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==History== [[Image:Andrew Pickens.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Pickens is named after [[American Revolutionary War]] Brigadier General [[Andrew Pickens (congressman)|Andrew Pickens]]]] Present-day Pickens of Pickens County was previously [[Cherokee]] Territory. During the [[American Revolutionary War]], the Cherokee sided with the [[Kingdom of Great Britain]]. When Great Britain was defeated in the war, the Cherokee were forced to surrender their land. In 1791, the state legislature established Washington District that comprises present-day [[Greenville County, South Carolina|Greenville]], [[Anderson County, South Carolina|Anderson]], [[Oconee County, South Carolina|Oconee]], and [[Pickens County, South Carolina|Pickens]] Counties. In 1798 Washington District was divided into Greenville and Pendleton districts. The Pendleton district eventually became Anderson, Oconee, and Pickens County. Pendleton District was divided in 1828 into Anderson and Pickens. A courthouse was established on the banks of the [[Keowee River]] where the town of '''Pickens Court House''' was developed. The [[Hagood-Mauldin House]] was built ''circa'' 1856 and is one of the historic structures of Pickens County. In 1868, the Pickens District was divided for a final time, into Pickens and Oconee counties. Pickens Court House relocated to its present-day site and was renamed to Pickens. The [[Pickens Railway]] was established in 1898 as a shortline railroad from [[Easley, South Carolina|Easley]] to Pickens.<ref>{{cite web|title=Pickens County: A Brief History|url=http://www.co.pickens.sc.us/History/default.aspx|website=co.pickens.sc.us|publisher=County of Pickens}}</ref> From 1955 until 1987, [[Schlumberger#Brownfields|Sangamo-Weston Inc.]]{{Broken anchor|date=2025-04-18|bot=User:Cewbot/log/20201008/configuration|target_link=Schlumberger#Brownfields|reason= The anchor (Brownfields) [[Special:Diff/1076323908|has been deleted]].|diff_id=1076323908}} operated a capacitor manufacturing facility just outside Pickens. Until they were banned in the US, Sangamo discharged a significant amount of [[polychlorinated biphenyl]]s (PCBs) into a tributary of the Twelve Mile River which feeds into [[Lake Hartwell]]. Sangamo also dumped contaminated waste in six locations in the vicinity of Pickens. In two of these locations, the waste was burned, forming more dangerous [[Dioxins and dioxin-like compounds|dioxins]]. According to the ''[[Spartanburg Herald-Journal]]'', contamination was discovered at the "Breazeale site", southwest of town. Schlumberger paid $11.8 million to federal and state agencies for injuries to natural resources caused by the contamination.<ref>{{cite news|title=Company to Pay $11.8 Million in Compensation for PCB-Damaged Fishery and Habitat|url=https://www.justice.gov/archive/opa/pr/2006/January/06_enrd_046.html|access-date=9 August 2016|publisher=Department of Justice|date=January 30, 2006}}</ref>
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