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Subject: USFS Special Use Permit
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 10:56:25 -0400


Dear Friends,
One of the projects we are working on involves obtaining a special
use permit from the U S Forest Service. We are interested in using a
wagon and a team of horses for touring some of the sites in the Long
Cane area. We intend to use the old wagon road that led from the S O
Young homestead south to Patterson's Bridge Road. Part of the route
would lead across the S O Young Estate lands and part across the Forest
Service lands.
The Sumter/Francis Marion District Forrester was most helpful. He met
with Emmitt Cox and me and agreed in principle to make the old road
usable and available to us for this purpose. We would be responsible for
maintance and liability insurance. He was able to find the route of the
old road in their 'acquisition records', a collection of old maps, plats
and drawings from when the USFS acquired the land.
Our concept is to develop a wagon ride tour starting at the S O Young
Homestead. The route would move south along the east side of Long Cane
Creek, crossing a beautiful hardwood bottom and a few minor branches
(incidentally, this is close to if not the exact route followed by the
Calhoun settlement as they fled toward Augusta). The wagon road will
come out on Patterson's Bridge Road near the turn off that leads to the
Indian Massacre Grave. After visiting the gravesite, the wagon will go
toward Long Cane Creek, stopping at the field currently used for the
re-enactment of the Battle of Long Cane. Assuming we can get the Highway
Department to fix Patterson's Bridge, the tour will then cross the creek
and take the next Forest Service road right (north) back to the paved
road and making a loop back by Long Cane ARP Church, the Covered Bridge
site, and the Bradley's (McCombs', Kennedy's, et al's) Mill ruins. Other
variations of this tour could be arranged, to visit the locations of old
homesites or family cemeteries located here and there in the Long Cane
District.
We hope to have this road open in time for this year's reenactment
(Oct. 21)

J C Grier

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