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8 unusual facts about Pickens County


Creole marble

Creole marble, also called Georgia creole or Georgia marble is a marble from quarries in Pickens County, Georgia.

D. W. Daniel High School

It is in Pickens County and is the one of four high schools administered by the School District of Pickens County (SDPC) (or Pickens 01).

Dallen Bounds

Law enforcement officers have closed four murders in Greenville and Pickens counties of South Carolina, and officials in the state of Washington suspect he was involved in several other murders.

Easley High School

The largest high school in Pickens County, it educates people in the eastern area of the county.

Pickens County, Alabama

The first courthouse in Carrollton was burned on April 5, 1865, by troops of Union General John T. Croxton.

Pickens County, Georgia

Pickens County has seen very rapid growth with the building of Georgia State Route 515, locally referred to as the '4 lane'.

Pickens County, South Carolina

Stanley Morgan, former NFL wide receiver who played for the New England Patriots, was born in Easley on February 17, 1955; member of the New England Patriots Hall of Fame.

Shoeless Joe Jackson, baseball player, born July 16, 1888; closely associated with the Black Sox Scandal in 1919;


Cherokee County, Georgia

It is bisected by Interstate 575, which runs from Marietta north through Woodstock, Lebanon, Holly Springs, Canton, the county seat, and Ball Ground, ending at the Pickens County line into Georgia 515, the Appalachian Parkway developmental highway.

U.S. Route 123

The highways continue as Tiger Boulevard and, after crossing the Keowee River branch of Lake Hartwell into Pickens County, Calhoun Memorial Highway.


see also

Pickens County Airport

North Pickens Airport in Pickens County, Alabama, United States (FAA: 3M8)

Samuel B. Moore

Moore died in 1846 and is interred at the city cemetery in Carrollton in Pickens County.

Toxaway

The Keowee-Toxaway State Natural Area, a state park in Pickens County, South Carolina, in the United States