Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 102
Land area (2000): 0.163657 sq. miles (0.423870 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.163657 sq. miles (0.423870 sq. km)
FIPS code: 13460
Located within: Colorado (CO), FIPS 08
Location: 38.107901 N, 103.511137 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Cheraw
Housing Units (2000): 2568
Land area (2000): 4.612664 sq. miles (11.946744 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.026379 sq. miles (0.068322 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 4.639043 sq. miles (12.015066 sq. km)
FIPS code: 13600
Located within: South Carolina (SC), FIPS 45
Location: 34.696573 N, 79.895087 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 29520
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Cheraw
Wikipedia
The Cheraw were a Siouxan-speaking Native American people of North and South Carolina.
Cheraw may also refer to:
- Cheraw, Colorado
- Cheraw, Mississippi
- Cheraw, South Carolina
The Cheraw people, also known as the Saraw or Saura, were a Siouan-speaking tribe of indigenous people of the Southeastern Woodlands, in the Piedmont area of North Carolina near the Sauratown Mountains, east of Pilot Mountain and north of the Yadkin River. They lived in villages near the Catawba River. Their first European and African contact was with the Hernando De Soto Expedition in 1540. The early explorer John Lawson included them in the larger eastern-Siouan confederacy, which he called "the Esaw Nation."
After attacks in the late 17th century and early 18th century, they moved to the southeast around the Pee Dee River, where the Cheraw name became more widely used. They became extinct as a tribe, although some descendants survived as remnant peoples.
Usage examples of "cheraw".
In the Cheraw district, on the Pedee, above the line where Marion commanded, the Whig and Tory warfare, of which we know but little beyond this fact, was one of utter extermination.
I remember that the Eastern Creeks used to often war against the Santee, the Pedee, the Wateree, the Congaree, the Cheraw, the Lumbee, the Sugaree, and the Waccamaw, all of which were allies of the mighty Catawba, but not even they were able to stand for long against the steel-breasts and their fire-sticks, fire-logs, and such deadly wonders.
Just at dusk we came to the insignificant village of Florence, the junction of the road leading from Charleston to Cheraw with that running from Wilmington to Kingsville.
Florence Junction, and sped away towards Cheraw, thirty-five miles north of us.
Charleston was being evacuated, and its garrison, munitions and stores were being removed to Cheraw, which the Rebel Generals intended to make their new base.
I mentioned my distrust of the concentration of Rebels at Cheraw, and their faces took on a look of supreme disdain.
We afterwards learned that two expeditions were sent down towards us from Cheraw, but they met with unexpected resistance, and were turned back.