Oconee History Museum

Oconee History Museum Oconee History Museum serves as an educational facility and museum of Oconee County history.
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☀️☀️☀️Happy June!☀️☀️☀️Here's what we've got going on this month. Check out our Facebook events page for more info!
06/02/2026

☀️☀️☀️Happy June!☀️☀️☀️

Here's what we've got going on this month. Check out our Facebook events page for more info!

Even museum cats want to learn about Revolutionary War flags! Pimiento Cheese was trying her best to make her TV debut b...
05/27/2026

Even museum cats want to learn about Revolutionary War flags! Pimiento Cheese was trying her best to make her TV debut but it was all about the flags today!

Thank you for promoting our Flag Day program! And an extra special thank you to volunteer Dave Loucks for his expertise...
05/27/2026

Thank you for promoting our Flag Day program! And an extra special thank you to volunteer Dave Loucks for his expertise on Revolutionary War era flags! Learn more about these flags on June 13th at 1pm.

Tune in to WSPA 7 this morning to learn more about our Flag Day Festivities on June 13th!! Thank you to our volunteer D...
05/27/2026

Tune in to WSPA 7 this morning to learn more about our Flag Day Festivities on June 13th!! Thank you to our volunteer Dave Loucks for sharing your expertise!!!

05/20/2026

ON THIS DAY: In May of 1777, peace was signed between the state of South Carolina, and the Cherokee Nation at Dewitt’s Corner, near modern Due West in Abbeville County. During the previous summer and fall, South Carolina troops had marched through the Cherokee Lower Towns, burning nearly all of them, and the crops that fed them. In exchange for peace the Cherokee surrendered all claims to the land that would later become Oconee and Pickens Counties, as well as most of Anderson and Greenville Counties. With this cession, the state of South Carolina attained the modern borders that define it to this day.

Not all members of the Cherokee delegation supported the Treaty of Dewitt's Corner. Dragging Canoe, the principal leader of the tribe’s war faction, refused to sign and led his band, known as the Chickamaugas, into Georgia, where they settled among the Creeks and remained at war for the rest of the war. The principal tribal leadership, however, accepted the Treaty and did not take up arms again in the American Revolutionary War. The Treaty marked their final and permanent expulsion from South Carolina, which had long been their home.

You can read the full Treaty of Dewitt's Corner through the link in our bio or visit it in person where it's currently on display at the South Carolina Department of Archives and History inside the "Foundations of a Revolution" exhibit.

Help Us In Our Efforts To Preserve Our Collection!!!A group from Leadership Oconee is volunteering to help clean up, org...
05/15/2026

Help Us In Our Efforts To Preserve Our Collection!!!

A group from Leadership Oconee is volunteering to help clean up, organize, and document our collection in our basement. This project will require items like boxes, cleaning supplies, archival supplies, and more. If you would like to help this project of preserving our collection by purchasing items, please click on our Amazon Wish List link below. We appreciate your support!!

Thank you to for hosting Tavern Talks! The audience learned all about women in the Revolutionary War.
05/08/2026

Thank you to for hosting Tavern Talks! The audience learned all about women in the Revolutionary War.

Thank you to for bringing to speak about Native Americans in the Revolutionary War! Everyone learned so many interesti...
05/07/2026

Thank you to for bringing to speak about Native Americans in the Revolutionary War! Everyone learned so many interesting stories and facts!

Address

123 Browns Square Drive
Walhalla, SC
29691

Opening Hours

Tuesday 11am - 5pm
Wednesday 11am - 5pm
Thursday 11am - 5pm
Friday 11am - 5pm
Saturday 11am - 5pm

Telephone

(864) 638-2224

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