Located in the heart of the SC backcountry, Thicketty Fort was the site of a 1780 standoff between Patriots and Loyalists during the American Revolution. The recently rehabilitated site features the historic cabin, its surrounding grounds, and a walking trail.
Early Scot Irish pioneers built Thicketty Fort out of heart pine logs around 1769 to protect themselves from Cherokee raiders. During the Revolutionary War, it was commandeered by Loyalists.
In the summer of 1780, a combined force of Spartan Regiment Patriot militiamen and Overmountain Men, under the command of Colonel Isaac Shelby, surrounded and took the fort from Loyalist Colonel Patrick Moore and his 96 men without firing a shot.
The Cherokee Historical & Preservation Society, Inc. presents the annual Liberation Day celebration at the Fort Thicketty historic site. Since purchasing and rehabilitating the site in 2015, the Society has commemorated its liberation by the Patriots by lowering the British flag and raising the United States flag, along with wreath laying and guest speakers. This year’s event will open Fort Thicketty Historic Site as an official pull-off destination on the South Carolina Liberty Trail after additional upgrades and accessibility improvements.
View video from the 2020 ceremony:
The Thicketty Fort property was acquired by CHAPS in 2014. Since then, and with much local and state support, the organization has rehabilitated the cabin and surrounding grounds in an effort to preserve this important part of our local, state, and national history.
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