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- The area is named after the original German settlers of the area, and like the Pennsylvania Dutch, Dutch here is an Anglicization of the term deutsch (which means German in the German language).
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May 17, 2016 · The preponderance of German-speaking settlers, however, gave the area its name—Dutch Fork for deutsch Volk (German people). The Dutch Fork lies in a fork between the Broad and Saluda Rivers that includes parts of the modern counties of Newberry, Lexington, and Richland.
- Alexia Jones Helsley
The Dutch Fork is a region of South Carolina located in Lexington, Newberry, and Richland Counties between the Saluda River and the Broad River where they fork together, forming the Congaree River. The area is named after the original German settlers of the area, and like the Pennsylvania Dutch, Dutch here is an Anglicization of the term ...
Dutch Fork Press 1982. Orlando Benedict Mayer (1818-1892) published "The Dutch Fork" in his local village newspaper, the Newberry, South Carolina Herald News, in the last four months of his life. It appears as a preface and eleven serial installments. Download here.
Feb 14, 2016 · The origins of the name Whorekill are murkier. Dutch explorers first arrived at what is now Lewes in 1629 and purchased land from the Siconese Indians who lived there. Long before it was dredged to create the Lewes-Rehoboth Canal, the river there was named Hoerekill in Dutch. The Dutch word “hoere” means whore (hoeren in the plural).
Nov 12, 2018 · The area between the Broad and Saluda Rivers in South Carolina is commonly known today as the Dutch Fork. It stretches from Columbia at the junction of the two rivers northward to Newberry with the two rivers as the east and west boundaries.
Aug 17, 2015 · But importantly, note that places called runs are not also called hollows. So you would have a stream called “Big Run” that also referred to the area around the stream, but one would not refer to that as Big Run Hollow. Fork is utilized exactly like run. One would say Cobb Fork, but not Cobb Hollow.
The name derives from the French Huguenot family, Foulque, who fled to Germany before coming to the Dutch Fork in the mid-1700’s. Ruff’s Ferry. Shirer’s or Bierly’s Ferry (established by Martin Shirer in 1770), was later called Ruff’s Ferry in the early 1800’s and Hughey’s Ferry in the second half of the century.
