Lake Keowee, the most spectacular blue water lake in the Southeast has over 18,000 acres, depths to 155 feet, and 300 miles of pristine shoreline. Lake Keowee is clear and clean due to the Jocassee valley and the Sumter National Forest. Fresh water streams and springs flowing from our beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains feed this crisp blue lake. Lake Keowee forms the headwaters of the Savannah basin as well as South Carolina’s  “Heritage Corridor.” Development of only ¼ of the entire shoreline results in an “undisturbed feel” making Lake Keowee perfect for all your outdoor recreation. Moonlight Bay on Lake Keowee is just a short drive to Lake Hartwell and Lake Jocassee, Jocassee is a 7650 Acre Lake of almost untouched wilderness, with Devils Fork State Park as the only public launch with deep water and great fishing.

Oconee is from the Indian name “water from the hills” ,The area of present day Oconee County was home to unknown groups of Indians as early as 300 A.D. Around 1100 A.D. the Etowah Indians probably occupied the region. Muskogeans inhabited parts of the territory previously occupied by the Etowah’s from approximately 1350–1600, and recent studies place the arrival of the Cherokee in present-day far eastern Georgia and extreme northwestern South Carolina. After 1500(This date is subject to change, due to new materials being discovered on the Cherokee and as relationships between the Cherokee and other Indian people are discovered.) In 1760, a bitter war between South Carolina and the Cherokee resulted in the destruction of most of the Lower Cherokee Villages, and the loss by the Cherokee of lands south and east of the present-day South Carolina counties of Anderson and Greenville. An attack by the Cherokee on the settled parts of present-day South Carolina in 1776 resulted in one of the early campaigns of the Revolutionary War. The Lower Cherokee villages, most of which were in the boundaries of present –day South Carolina. Norwood’s Station, a guard post to warn of possible Indian attacks was erected along the Tugaloo River in the latter years of the Revolutionary War and apparently continued in operation for a number of years after 1783. Oconee County was formed in 1868 from Pickens County, and the county seat is Walhalla. This area is in the northwest corner of the state edging the Blue Ridge Mountains. After the American Revolution, settlers from other parts of the state began moving in, including the Germans from Charleston who founded the town of Walhalla in 1850. In 1856 work began on a tunnel for the Blue Ridge Railroad that would have linked Charleston with Knoxville, Tennessee, but the Civil War ended that project; unfinished Stumphouse Tunnel can still be seen today. Several Revolutionary War heroes moved to present day Oconee County after the war, including Andrew Pickens (1739-1817), Robert Anderson (1741-1813), and Benjamin Cleveland (1738-1806).

Oconee County has a wide variety of interests to offer all within minutes. We have shopping, quaint little coffee shops and antique dealers and we are only 25-45 minutes of Anderson and Greenville. We have some top notch schools in our area such as Oconee County School District, Clemson University and Tri County Technical College.
                                

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