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The Saluda

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NOTE: the publication date for the source information contained in the following article was 1920.

Contributed by: 
Paul R. Sarrett, Jr. Aug. 11, 1998                         (prsjr@aol.com)

Saluda tribe. - Meaning unknown.

Saluda Connections. - These are uncertain but circumstantial evidence 
indicates strongly that the Saluda were a band of Shawnee, and therefore 
of the Algonquian stock.

Saluda Location. - On Saluda River.

Saluda History. - Almost all that we know regarding the Saluda is 
contained in a note on George Hunter's map of the Cherokee country 
drawn in 1730 indicating "Saluda town where a nation settled 35 years 
ago, removed 18 years to Conestogo, in Pensilvania." As bands of Shawnee 
were moving into just that region from time to time during the period 
indicated, there is reason to think that this was one of them, all 
the more that a "Savana" creek appears on the same map flowing into 
Congaree River just below the Saluda settlement.

Saluda Population. - Unknown.

Saluda Connection in which they have become noted.- The name Saluda 
is preserved by Saluda River and settlements in Saluda County, SC.; 
Polk County, NC.; and Middlesex County, Va.

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