Anderson County
http://www.andersonsc.com/community/

Anderson County and its county seat, Anderson, were named for Revolutionary War
general Robert Anderson (1741-1812). This region was occupied by the Cherokee
Indians until 1777, when it was ceded by treaty to the state. Part of the
"Indian Land" became Pendleton District (also called Washington District at one
time.) The area was given its present name in 1826, when Pendleton District was
split into Anderson and Pickens. Most of the early settlers of this area were
Scotch-Irish farmers who moved south from Pennsylvania and Virginia in the
eighteenth century. The oldest town in the county is Pendleton, which was
founded around 1790; it became a popular summer resort for lowcountry planters
in the nineteenth century. Some famous residents of Anderson County were United
States senator and governor Olin D. Johnston (1896-1965), business leader
Charles E. Daniel (1895-1964), and composer Lily Strickland (1884-1958).

Compiled by South Carolina State Library 1996. 
http://www.state.sc.us/scsl/ande.html

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