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Oconee County is the westernmost county in the U.S. state of South Carolina. As of the 2010 census, the population was 74,273.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/45/45073.html )〕 Its county seat is Walhalla.〔(【引用サイトリンク】accessdate=2011-06-07 )〕 Oconee County is included in the Seneca, SC Micropolitan Statistical Area, which is also included in the Greenville-Spartanburg-Anderson, SC Combined Statistical Area. South Carolina Highway 11, the Cherokee Foothills National Scenic Highway, begins in southern Oconee County at Interstate Highway 85 at the Georgia state line. ==History== Oconee County takes its name from the Cherokee word "Ae-quo-nee" meaning "land beside the water." Oconee was a local Cherokee town that was situated on the main British/Cherokee trading path between Charleston and the Mississippi River in the early 18th century. Its geographic position later placed it at the intersection of the trading path and the Cherokee treaty boundary of 1777. In 1792, a frontier outpost was built by the SC State Militia near the town site and was named Oconee Station. When Oconee County was created out of the Pickens District in 1868 it was named for Oconee Town. *1780s - The rare wildflower, Oconee Bell, first recorded by André Michaux. *1780s - After the American Revolutionary War, Colonel Benjamin Cleveland and a group of followers received land grants from Georgia and settled in present day Oconee County. *1787 - Georgia withdrew its claims to the land between the Tugaloo and Keowee River by the Treaty of Beaufort to South Carolina. *1816 - Cherokee sold their remaining South Carolina land. *1850s - The largest town was Tunnel Hill, located above Stumphouse Mountain Tunnel. *1868 - Oconee County was formed when Pickens County was divided. Walhalla was made the county seat. *1870 - Air line Railroad built a railroad through the county which helped to form Seneca and Westminster *1893 - Newry was established as mill village to house workers of the Courtenay Manufacturing Company. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Oconee County, South Carolina」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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