Swiss Settlers of the Carolina Back Country: Saxe Gotha, Switzers' Neck, the Dutch Fork, and Lexington

Authors

Claudette Holliday

Keywords

Carolina, Swiss immigrants, Saxe Gotha, everyday life, Germany

Abstract

The Township Act and Saxe Gotha The year was 1716 and a lone outpost, the Congaree garrison, located about five miles below the mouth of the Saluda River and below the Congaree Creek on the western bank of the Congaree River offered little protection for low country settlements from Indians resisting the take-over of their homelands. By 1722 the garrison was abandoned.

Recommended Citation

Holliday, Claudette (1999) "Swiss Settlers of the Carolina Back Country: Saxe Gotha, Switzers' Neck, the Dutch Fork, and Lexington," Swiss American Historical Society Review: Vol. 35: No. 3, Article 2.
Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/sahs_review/vol35/iss3/2