South Carolina Culpepper Archives
Oconee County
History
In the northwestern
corner of South Carolina and spanning both the Blue Ridge and Piedmont
regions, Oconee County was formed in 1868 from Pickens County. Its
county seat, the town of Walhalla is about 40 miles west of Greenville
and 110 miles northwest of Columbia. Oconee County is bordered by the
South Carolina counties of Pickens and
Anderson, the Georgia counties of
Hart, Franklin,
Stephens, Habersham and
Rabun and the North Carolina
counties of Jackson and
Transylvania.
Newspaper:
Daily Journal,
Seneca; Keowee Courier,
Walhalla
Any names
below in red have not been matched
with a person in the Culpepper family tree. If you can identify any of
them,
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Census Records
Oconee County was
not formed until 1868.
1870 - 1930 US Censuses
