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A German family settles in Walhalla

The Keil Farm symbolizes the role that a German immigrant family played in the settlement & development of Walhalla and Oconee County in SC.

Anderson, SC was the first city in the United States to have a continuous supply of electric power thanks to native son William C. Whitner.

In your grandfather’s time the blacksmith shod horses, made plough points, built wagons and carriages, and made all kinds of tools.

The textile industry grew quickly after 1880, and SC was one of the leading textile-producing states nationally for the next 40 years.

Family tradition says that Ganaway Russell paid for the property in 1867 with a fortune he made driving cattle to feed California gold miners.

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