Jim, You have Indian Land confused--there are two Indian Lands: (1) is the community in Lancaster County that Hwy 521 runs through from the NC line below Pineville down to a point almost to the Andrew Jackson State Park (you said it was in York County, this community isn't). (2) historically there was the Catawba Indian Land which was an area designated by the Treaty of Augusta in 1763 (at end of French and Indian Wars) as a reservation for the Catawba Indians. It was an area of 144,000 acres or approximately 15 miles square and was ended by the Nation Ford Treaty of 1840. In today's terms that Catawba Indian Land took in much of the Lancaster County present- day Indian Land but not all (not the communnity of Osceola which is below Twelve Mile Creek and is a part of Indian Land township). In York County the Catawba Indian Land encompassed all of present-day Fort Mill township and then westward of the Catawba River in a way that is hard to define but if you look at Tega Cay in Fort Mill township on a map and draw an imaginary line southwestward and do a right angle that takes you between Rock Hill and McConnells and go straight on dipping a half mile south of the York-Chester County line and right angle that toward the east on the York County side to go to the Catawba river directly opposite where Twelve Mile Creek empties into the Catawba on the east side (just barely north of the Borel Brick Plant at Van Wyck) then you have drawn a rough map of the Catawba Indian Land. There was a long suit between the Catawba Indians that began in the 1970s and ended in 1993 in which the Catawbas claimed the pre-1840 Indian Land on the basis that SC never lived up to the terms of the Nation Ford Treaty and never took the treaty to the U. S. Congress to be ratified (all true). The Catawbas finally made a cash settlement with the State of SC. So when you hear the term Catawba Indian Land it means something different from the Indian Land community. They call it Nations Ford Road in Charlotte and the street signs of Rock Hill also say Nations Ford, but the correct spelling is Nation Ford (correct by the SC Archives standards for historical markers, there was a post office called Nation Ford and the 1840 Treaty is the Nation Ford Treaty). Louise Pettus (PS: I was born in Indian Land, Lancaster County and my family still live there.) Jim McDonald wrote: > > Indianland is a community in York County, SC which lies on Hwy 521 just > south of Pineville, NC as you go toward Lancaster, SC. The Nations Ford > probably refers to the crossing (ford) on the Catawba River where the > Indians crossed the river. There is a Nations Ford Rd. which comes northward > toward Charlotte,NC from the area around the Catawba River. Charlotte was > built around a crossroads of Indian trails, hence there is a small community > in the area called Inian Trail. > Jim