A history of Pickens,
then and now
Postcards, papers and photographs of Pickens from public archives, woven together by decade. Neighbors fill in the gaps.
The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗Present-day Pickens of Pickens County was previously Cherokee Territory. During the American Revolutionary War, the Cherokee sided with the Kingdom of Great Britain. When Great Britain was defeated in the war, the Cherokee were forced to surrender their land. In 1791, the state legislature established Washington District that comprises present-day Greenville, Anderson, Oconee, and Pickens Counties. In 1798 Washington District was divided into Greenville and Pendleton districts. The Pendleton district eventually became Anderson, Oconee, and Pickens County. Pendleton District was divided in 1828 into Anderson and Pickens. A courthouse was established on the banks of the Keowee River where the town of Pickens Court House was developed. The Hagood-Mauldin House was built circa 1856 and is one of the historic structures of Pickens County. In 1868, the Pickens District was divided for a final…
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Timeline
built from the dates on the items belowFinish Pickens’s story
Most archives stop around 1920. The photos from after that are in family albums, not libraries.
1 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🔁Retake an old viewRocky Bottom 4-H Camp, Dining Hal…, 1933: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Famous people from Pickens
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Pickens, decade by decade
CommonsRocky Bottom 4-H Camp, Dining Hall, Intersection of Routes …1933
CommonsRocky Bottom 4-H Camp, Dining Hall, Intersection of Routes …1933
CommonsRocky Bottom 4-H Camp, Dining Hall, Intersection of Routes …1933
CommonsRocky Bottom 4-H Camp, Dining Hall, Intersection of Routes …1933
CommonsRocky Bottom 4-H Camp, Dining Hall, Intersection of Routes …19331990s
3 historic places in Pickens
3 places in Pickens are on the National Register of Historic Places, the country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.
Where they are
When they were listed
Then & now
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as Rocky Bottom 4-H Camp, Dining Hall, Intersection of Routes 178 and 199 (1933) and it appears here side by side.
🔁 Retake this view · +15Stories next door
nearby towns’ historyFrom Wikimedia Commons (5). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.