Winnee

Winnee is associated with the Black River, once recorded as the Wynee, in the Carolina coastal plain. Its dark waters run through wooded swamps toward the Pee Dee. Peoples recorded in the river country included the Wenee, Waccamaw and Peedee. English settlers were living near the lower Black River by 1710, and others came across the Santee during the following decade, as Indigenous communities faced disease, warfare and growing pressure on their lands.