City Directories and History: Fork Township lies between the Tugaloo and Seneca Rivers. Its boundaries form an almost equilateral triangle about eleven miles in length, with Anderson ville at its apex, lying in the fork of the rivers. The first settlers in the region were David Sloan and his wife Susan. They pitched their tent on the west bank of the Seneca river at a point later known as Sloan’s Ferry. The exact date of their coming is unknown, but they had a grant of 1,500 acres of land from the State, and one chimney of their old home bore the date, 1794. They acquired wealth, and reared a large family of sons and daughters.
(Information from: Names in South Carolina by C.H. Neuffer, Published by the S.C. Dept. of English, USC)
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