Saluda Old Town Site
National Register Listing
Street Address:
Address Restricted (Saluda County)
NRHP Nomination
Record Number:
S10817741004
Description and Narrative:
This is an important site with a background of several significant occupations extending from prehistoric to historic times. Archaic projectile points have been recovered indicating an early occupation of 5,000 to 2,000 years ago. Pottery collected from the mound and from the pasture has included cord-marked and complicated stamped pottery indicating middle to late prehistoric occupations. The predominant complicated stamped pottery indicates a large village of the Temple Mound Period of 1,000 to 400 years ago, centering on the low mound that remains and probably having a large open plaza surrounded by dwelling houses to the north and west of the mound. Historic records refer to this as the site of a town of the Saluda Indians of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century and as having been abandoned by 1712 when the Saludas moved north. Historic records also indicate this to be the site at which, on July 2, 1755, the Cherokee Chief Conocartee (Old Hop) signed a treaty with South Carolina Governor Glen. The treaty recognized the sovereignty of the King of England over all Cherokee lands in South Carolina, 360,000 square miles. This later became the Ninety-Six District. Listed in the National Register June 28, 1972.
Period of Significance:
1755
Level of Significance:
National
Area of Significance:
Archeology: Historic - Aboriginal;Archeology: Prehistoric;Other
National Register Determination:
listed
Date of Certification:
June 28 1972
