Here's what I could find on Fort Prince from a Web Site on Spartenburg History. PRINCE "The site of Old Fort Prince is seven miles west of Spartanburg, one mile below Mount Zion Church, and very near the old historic Blackstock Road. It was built by the early settlers about 12 years before the beginning of the Revolution, as a defense against the outbreak and massacres of the Indians on the borders during the war between France and Great Britain. It was called from the Princes, who lived nearby. Among the earliest settlers living in the vicinity of Fort Prince were the families Vernons, Jordens, Timmons, Reas or Rays, Millers, Dodds, Collins, Lawrences, Bishops, Goodletts, Jamisons, and others. These came to this section before the Revolution, and some of their descendants still hover around the home of their ancestors. It was during the Indian outrages of 1776, instigated by Indian emissaries or agents, that the early settlers in the vicinities of Fort Prince, Poole's Fort near Wofford's Iron Works (now Glendale), Nicholl's Fort at "Narrow Pass" near the residence of the late Captain David ANDERSON, Blockhouse near Landrum, Thickety and other forts gathered and erected forts to defend themselves from impending danger. During these trying ordeals it was necessary that a proper person be selected to purchase supplies for the maintenance of these people, and the person selected for this responsible duty at Fort Prince was James JORDEN."