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Revision as of 04:55, 24 December 2009
Location and Geographic Characteristics
"Tamassee" is an unincorporated community located in northwestern Oconee County, South Carolina, United States. The Tamassee area is located in and very near the Blue Ridge Mountains. A large part of the community occupies the scenic Cheohee Valley, “a beautiful rolling meadow framed by mountains and a wide triangle of sky.”[1][2]
The valley, in fact, is surrounded by a portion of the southern Blue Ridge Mountains called the “Chattooga Escarpment” in reference to a Federally Designated Wild and Scenic River, the Chattooga, which flows just beyond these mountain ridges.[3]
Tamassee is bordered on the West and North by the Pickens Ranger District of the Sumter National Forest. This area of national forest is characterized by a portion of the Blue Ridge Escarpment, rivers, waterfalls and hiking trails. The area is noted for it’s extremely rich biological diversity; which is said to owe to unique soil characteristics and elevated annual precipitation levels.[4]
The Tamassee DAR School
Tamassee is home to the Tamassee DAR School; a school founded in 1919 by the Daughters of the American Revolution to serve the underprivileged children of Appalachia.[5] Historic buildings can be observed on the DAR School campus. The school survives and thrives to this day, consistently graduating classes of children between the ages of 13 and 18. [6]
History: Cherokee Origins
The name "Tamassee" means "Place of the Sunlight of God", according to an interpretation of the Cherokee word which gave the area its original title.[7] Tamassee was the name given by the Cherokee to originally describe a Cherokee village in the area, which legend tells, was home to a magical and powerful Cherokee prophet.[8] The Cherokee town of Tamassee was likely destroyed or abandoned after 1775 when Andrew Pickens fought in the famed "ring fight", which drove the Cherokee from the otherwise peaceful village. There is currently a South Carolina state historical marker denoting the Cherokee Village of “Tamassee Town” in the Cheohee Valley of Tamassee.[9]
Today, the Tamassee area maintains a rural and agricultural foundation, and provides a pleasant setting for day hikes, country drives and historical investigation.[10]
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- ^ http://www.dnr.sc.gov/managed/wild/jocassee/newsletters/jocvol6no1.pdf
- ^ http://www.chattoogariver.org/index.php?quart=W2007&req=tamassee
- ^ http://www.chattoogariver.org/index.php?quart=W2007&req=tamassee
- ^ http://www.chattoogariver.org/index.php?quart=W2007&req=tamassee
- ^ http://www.tdarschool.org/dynamicdata/History.aspx?id=2&sid=159&menuid=2
- ^ http://www.kraeszig.com/wizard_of_tamassee
- ^ http://www.kraeszig.com/wizard_of_tamassee
- ^ http://www.tdarschool.org/dynamicdata/Legend.aspx?id=2&sid=161&menuid=2
- ^ http://www.oconeecountry.com/oconeestories.html
- ^ http://www.chattoogariver.org/index.php?quart=W2007&req=tamassee