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Spartanburg county (South Carolina, United States) (search for this): entry cowpens-the
Winnsborough (Louisiana, United States) (search for this): entry cowpens-the
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Broad River (South Carolina, United States) (search for this): entry cowpens-the
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Cowpens, the
This name was derived from the circumstance that, some years before the Revolution, before that section of South Carolina was settled, some persons in Camden (then called Pine-Tree) employed two men to go up to the Thicketty Mountain, and in the grassy intervals among the hills raise cattle.
As a compensation, they were allowed the entire use of the cows during the summer, for making butter and cheese, and the steers in tillage.
In the fall large numbers of the fatted cattle would be driven down to Camden to be slaughtered for beef on account of the owners.
This region, on account of its grass and fine springs, was peculiarly favorable for the rearing and use of cows, and consequently was called The Cowpens.
Subsequently the name of Cowpens was given to a village in Spartanburg county, which became the scene of a spirited battle in the Revolutionary War (1781).
From his camp, eastward of the Pedee, Greene sent Morgan, with the Maryland regiment and Washington'
Camden, S. C. (South Carolina, United States) (search for this): entry cowpens-the
Cowpens (Georgia, United States) (search for this): entry cowpens-the
Cowpens, the
This name was derived from the circumstance that, some years before the Revolution, before that section of South Carolina was settled, some persons in Camden (then called Pine-Tree) employed two men to go up to the Thicketty Mountain, and in the grassy intervals among the hills raise cattle.
As a compensation, they were allowed the entire use of the cows during the summer, for making butter and cheese, and the steers in tillage.
In the fall large numbers of the fatted cattle n to Camden to be slaughtered for beef on account of the owners.
This region, on account of its grass and fine springs, was peculiarly favorable for the rearing and use of cows, and consequently was called The Cowpens.
Subsequently the name of Cowpens was given to a village in Spartanburg county, which became the scene of a spirited battle in the Revolutionary War (1781).
From his camp, eastward of the Pedee, Greene sent Morgan, with the Maryland regiment and Washington's dragoons of Lee'
Georgia (Georgia, United States) (search for this): entry cowpens-the
Richard Henry Lee (search for this): entry cowpens-the
John H. Morgan (search for this): entry cowpens-the