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===Post-Revolutionary and 19th-century history=== * 1780s - The rare American wildflower, [[Oconee Bell]], was first recorded by French botanist [[André Michaux]]. * 1780s - Colonel [[Benjamin Cleveland]] and a group of Revolutionary veterans received land grants from the state of Georgia (which then claimed this area according to their colonial charter), in lieu of payment for service, and settled in present-day Oconee County. * 1787 - Georgia withdrew its claims to the land between the Tugaloo and Keowee rivers by the [[Treaty of Beaufort]] with South Carolina. * 1816 - Under pressure from encroaching European Americans, the [[Cherokee]] sold their remaining South Carolina land. * 1850s - The largest town in the county was Tunnel Hill, located above [[Stumphouse Mountain Tunnel]]. * 1868 - Oconee County was formed by the state legislature dividing Pickens County. [[Walhalla, South Carolina|Walhalla]] was designated as the county seat. * 1870 - Air Line Railroad built a railroad through the county; it stimulated development at stops known as [[Seneca, South Carolina|Seneca]] and [[Westminster, South Carolina|Westminster]] * 1893 - [[Newry, South Carolina|Newry]] was established as a mill village to house workers of the Courtenay Manufacturing Company, a textile mill that produced cotton, wool, and other textile products.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Project |first=SC Picture |date=December 8, 2010 |title=Newry Mill |url=https://www.scpictureproject.org/oconee-county/newry-mill.html |access-date=August 9, 2022 |website=SC Picture Project |language=en-US}}</ref>
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