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by Charlotte Allen Print this article John Caldwell Calhoun (1782-1850), the South Carolina senator who was slavery’s most vociferous defender (he called it a “positive good”) and whose espousal of state “nullification” of federal laws is said to have led directly to Southern secession and the Civil War, is probably today’s most canceled U.S. historical figure. A statue of Calhoun in downtown Charleston, erected by Confederacy sentimentalists during the late 19th century and standing 115 feet tall in its longest-lasting version, was one of the first of the ...

The Lower Cherokee Town of Esseneca was built on both sides of the Keowee River, now Lake Hartwell. In 1775, naturalist William Bartram described the village and its size in detail, including “the number of inhabitants is now estimated at about five hundred, and they are able to muster about one hundred warriors.” After the Revolutionary War, the former South Carolina Cherokee lands were being developed, and the first Hopewell-Keowee Church opened in 1791. Rev. James McElhenney of Johns Island served as the Presbyterian minister from 1803-1812, living in a four-room house known as Clergy ...