Ellicott's Rock

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name = Ellicott's Rock
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nearest_city = Walhalla, South Carolina
lat_degrees = 35
lat_minutes = 0
lat_seconds = 0
lat_direction = N
long_degrees = 83
long_minutes = 06
long_seconds = 30.5
long_direction = W
locmapin = South Carolina
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built = 1813
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added = 1973
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governing_body = United States Forest Service

In 1811, Andrew Ellicott made a survey for the State of Georgia to resolve the boundary dispute between Georgia and North Carolina. He marked a large rock in the Chattooga River with "NC-GA", standing for North Carolina - Georgia.

Two years later commissioners representing South Carolina and North Carolina marked a large rock along the the Chattooga River bank with the inscription "Lat 35 AD 1813 NC + S.C." as the juncture where the South Carolina and North Carolina state lines joined. The rock marked by the S.C. and N.C. commissioners in 1813, rather than the rock marked by Ellicott in 1811, is usually called Ellicott's Rock. This is commonly accepted as the point where the boundary lines of South Carolina, North Carolina, and Georgia join.

There are two versions in print on the distance between the two rocks. One is that Ellicott's original rock was 500 ft upstream. [Marvin Lucian Skaggs, "North Carolina Boundary Disputes Involving Her Southern Line" (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press,1941), 125-140, 201.] In the other story, the rocks are much closer. De Hart's South Carolina Trails guide said that they are a "few feet apart." [Allen De Hart, "South Carolina Trails" (Globe Pequot Press,1989, 2nd ed), 50.] In the North Carolina trail guide, he said Commissioner Rock is "ten feet downstream". [Allen De Hart, "North Carolina Hiking Trails" (Appalachian Mountain Club Books,1988, 2nd ed), 61.]

This rock was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1973 and is located in Ellicott Rock Wilderness. The South Carolina Department of Archives and History has additional information, [ [http://www.nationalregister.sc.gov/oconee/S10817737004/index.htm Ellicott's Rock information at the South Carolina Archives and History.] ] and copies of the nomination forms. [ [http://www.nationalregister.sc.gov/oconee/S10817737006/S10817737006.pdf Ellicott Rock nomination form.] ]

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* [http://maps.google.com/maps?ie=UTF8&z=17&ll=35.000894,-83.108375&spn=0.006547,0.008379&t=h&om=1 Location of Ellicott's Rock (Google)]