Pacolate

The Pacolet, also called the Pacolate, runs from the Carolina uplands to the Broad River. Its wooded valley was used for hunting and fishing by the Cherokee and Catawba. After an agreement between the Cherokee and the colonial governor James Glen in 1753, European settlers began farming in the area around the river. Before the American Revolution the locality later called Pacolet was known as Grindal Shoals, after the shallows in its river.