Pinckneyville is a historic frontier settlement site located near

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Union County, South Carolina Union County is a county located in the U.S. state of South Carolina. As of the 2020 census, the population was 27,244. Its county seat is Union. The county was created in 1785. Union County is coterminous with the Union, SC, Micropolitan Sta ...

. Pinckneyville was established on February 19, 1791, by the General Assembly of South Carolina Act #1491 along with the Washington district, and is one of the earliest settlements in the South Carolina backcountry. Pinckneyville was named for Charles Cotesworth Pinckney. Pinckneyville was chosen because it was central to Union County, but Union was the seat of power.
The property includes the original site of Pinckneyville and contains the ruins of the brick structure mistakenly referred to as the jail and one other brick building, usually referred to as the old store. Pinckneyville lasted until 1850. By 1850 Pinckneyville was replaced by Union on the South Carolina census. It was a combination of the

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and population growth in the surrounding areas that killed it. Population in the sense that the surrounding areas got their own courts after the General Assembly restructured the court system in 1799. And the railroad because it redirected traffic which starved out the town after the court left. Pinckneyville is currently in Union County and

(back then Unionville) is the town the railroad went through. Previously stagecoach routes directed people to towns and stagecoach routes in the area traveled through the towns with the courts. The stagecoach then ran from Charleston, SC to

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, PA. The Spartanburg and Union Railroad was planned in 1847 and finished in 1859 by then Union was the place businesses were moving to. It was added to the

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in 1969.

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Historic Courthouse at Pinckneyville - Union County, S.C.
Archaeological sites on the National Register of Historic Places in South Carolina 1790 establishments in South Carolina Buildings and structures in Union County, South Carolina National Register of Historic Places in Union County, South Carolina {{UnionCountySC-NRHP-stub