Damita, Here is what Mayor Bubba thinks about Kings Highway. Cindy W A McElveen Jr wrote: > > Cindy.....think you are right about the Kings Highway....never really > thought of it....but believe the same road is called the Kings Highway and > the old River road.....my guess is that it is old river road as it ran > parrell to the Wateree and then Santee Rivers as one traveled from > Charleston to Camder...(old oldest Inland City)...it also followed the > Cooper....so my guess is that is where name old River Road Came from.....261 > does not follow the same path.....the road has been moved.....think the best > source for this is Charleston at the South Carolina Historical Society....or > maybe the Carolinana in Columbia has an old map....(have looked at some on > occassion)......there is really a hodge podge going on just now in Sumter > County....Hwy 261 for postal purposes is now Kings Highway.....I understand > from some folks that around Wedgefied and Pinewood it becomes "Mac McLeod" > road.....but have not investigated....just heard complaints from the people > at a church at Pinewood where I was speaker....and Mr. McLauring fussed > about it....but am no longer in public office ....so don't know how I can > help.....thanks for sending me this....Bubba....would you send to > Damita....don't know how to do this.....thanks > -----Original Message----- > From: Cynthia Ridgeway Parker <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] <[email protected]> > Date: Sunday, March 08, 1998 1:30 PM > Subject: Re: [SCSUMTER-L] QUERY: King's Highway vs River Road? > > >Damita, > > I have thought about that same thing before: more than one road being > >called the King's Highway. The one here in Sumter County, 261, from > >Pinewood through Stateburg and on to Camden is called the King's > >Highway. Highway 17 along the coast from Myrtle Beach to Georgetown is > >called the King's Highway. > > > > I am just guessing, but maybe roadways that were built before the > >Revolution and paid for with the King's money were referred to as the > >King's Highway. I have never read that anywhere; it just seems sort of > >logical. Something that we could look into somewhere, somehow. We need > >more of a historian to anwer that. Poor us, we are just family tree > >rooters who happen upon history in connection with our folks. > > > >Good hunting, > >Cindy > > > > > >==== SCSUMTER Mailing List ==== > >Rootsweb has a search engine available for its mailing lists. > >If you don't know which list you'd like to search, check out the list > >of lists hosted by RootsWeb at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~maillist/ > > > >You can search the message archives of the SCSumter list at: > >http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl