Saluda

The Saluda River descends from the Blue Ridge through the Carolina Piedmont, joining the Broad to form the Congaree. Along its course lay Saluda Old Town, a settlement of the Saluda people abandoned when they moved north in the early eighteenth century. A path used by traders ran through the river country between Charles Town and the Cherokee towns.

In 1755 the old town became the meeting place for a conference between Cherokee leaders and South Carolina's governor, James Glen. Delegations gathered there for talks that ended in a treaty on 2 July. The agreement concerned Cherokee lands and the relationship between their nation and the British crown, at a time when the French and Indian War was drawing colonial powers and Indigenous nations into conflict.