Enoree

The Enoree flows through the South Carolina backcountry to join the Broad River. Its name is thought to come from a Cherokee word for a river of muscadine grapes. Families moving south from Virginia claimed land along the river and its creeks in the eighteenth century, establishing farms amid a countryside contested during the Cherokee War.

During the American Revolution, a ford on the Enoree near Edward Musgrove's mill became the scene of a sharp encounter. In August 1780 Patriot militia rode to attack a Loyalist camp there, then discovered that their opponents had been reinforced. They drew the British and Loyalist troops into an ambush north of the river and won the battle, but withdrew when news arrived of an American defeat at Camden.