Oolenoy

The Oolenoy rises near Sassafras Mountain and flows through the southern Appalachian foothills toward the Saluda River. Its valley lies beneath the steep face of Table Rock, among streams descending from the Blue Ridge. Cherokee people lived in this mountain country, where the valleys offered fields for corn and the surrounding woods held deer and other game. European settlers arrived in the Oolenoy valley during the eighteenth century.