Greenville County
Glassy Mountain
While the lower parts of South Carolina had been settled for many years, Greenville County remained part of the old Cherokee Indian hunting ground. White men were strictly forbidden to enter the area. The Cherokee Indians ceded these lands to South Carolina in 1777. Not many white people ventured into the beautiful Cherokee country before the Revolutionary War. The first white settler in present Greenville County was Richard Pearis. He came in 1765 and married a Cherokee woman. They settled near present day Paris Mountain. Pearis sided with the loyalist during the Revolutionary War and after the war settled in the Bahama Islands on a land grant from the British government. The Greenville district was established in 1784. In 1868 the districts names in South Carolina were replaced by counties names.
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