We the People: Cluberston Backcountry Settlement

GRAY COURT, S.C. — Hidden just off South Carolina Highway 14, a cluster of log cabins offers a glimpse into what life might have looked like during the American Revolution.

On The Cluberston Backcountry Settlement, located in Gray Court, sits a church, schoolhouse, and cabins—all designed to reflect the 1700s and early 1800s. It’s a place where history is not just remembered, but carefully preserved.

Sarah Jane Armstrong, is part of the Gray Court–Owings Historical Society, helping preserve the sits and its stories.

“I like talking to children cause they come in and they say social studies is boring. I say its the most exciting this you can read about. As long as we talk about our ancestors and tell their stories then their memories never die. its when we stop talking about them.”

She said, “this was the frontier of South Carolina.”

Covered wagons and stagecoaches brought early settlers from Virginia and North Carolina down to Georgia.

“This was the frontier of South Carolina,” Armstrong explains.

Many of the cabins date back to the late 1700s or early 1800s, though we don’t have exact records, Armstrong says you can tell how old the cabins are by the way they were built.

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