Motorists traveling Georgia Highway 100 between Summerville and the Floyd County line pass a place whose unusual name reaches deep into Chattooga County’s earliest history. South Carolina Campground sits near the southern end of Taylor’s Ridge in the High Point area. To someone unfamiliar with the community, the name might seem out of place. After all, the South Carolina state line is many miles away. But the name is a reminder of the families who settled this portion of Chattooga County during the 1800s — and of a time when a rural campground could serve not only as a place of worship, but as a school, meeting place, cemetery and center of community life. Records indicate the history of South Carolina Campground stretches back to the 1840s, only a few years after Chattooga County itself was created in 1838. The answer appears to be surprisingly straightforward: South Carolinians came here. A history of South Carolina Campground Methodist Church written in 1959 by the Rev. Charles Hendrix says many of the early members of the congregation had migrated into Chattooga County from South Carolina. Over time, their meeting place became known as South Carolina Campground. One family history provides additional detail. It says Little Berry Strange, born in South Carolina in 1807, came to Chattooga County with his family in 1841 and settled near Broomtown at the foot of Taylor’s Ridge. According to that account, Strange and his brother, William Bradford Strange, helped establish a…
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