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Here in the Upstate,
C is for Cherokee Foothills Scenic Highway.
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The Cherokee Foothills Scenic Highway
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begins, appropriately enough, in Cherokee
County.
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Right near the town of Gaffney, the Highway
11 corridor
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is completely covered with peach orchards
on both sides for many miles.
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As you move several miles
down toward the Greenville County section,
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the Tryon-Landrum area is noted horse country.
Lots of fox hounds and horse-training stables
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in that area.
The mountains of South Carolina
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are being changed in a really profound way.
Development is encroaching from virtually
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every direction.
But we're fortunate here in Pickens County
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to have been able to preserve somewhere around
50,000 acres
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that will remain in a wild state forever.
There's an old Cherokee legend
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that goes with the name of Table Rock.
The legend says there was a Cherokee chieftain
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who was such a giant
that he used the top of the mountain as a
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table.
And the little knobby mountain adjacent to
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Table Rock
is called The Stool
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because that's where the chief sat down to
take meals.
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So that's Table Rock.
And not far from Table Rock is Caesars Head.
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There are two versions of that story.
The one I've heard since I was a kid
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was that there is a rock outcropping on Caesars
Head
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that somebody at some time
thought resembled the Roman emperor Julius
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Caesar.
The other explanation, sometime in the 1800s,
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one of the huntsmen in this area
was running the dogs after some game--
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deer, bear, wild hogs, or something--
and the whole parade fell off the cliff at
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Sassafras Mountain, located just north of
Table Rock,
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is one of the most interesting natural features
in South Carolina.
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It's not only located right on the Eastern
Continental Divide
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and divides North and South Carolina,
but it's also the highest point in South Carolina.
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And this is really interesting.
Any rainfall that falls on Sassafras Mountain
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could end up
in the Atlantic Ocean or the Gulf of Mexico,
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depending on which side of the mountain it
drains off of.
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We look forward to seeing you in the Upstate
of South Carolina.
