South Carolina Pioneers
Fairfield County
Fairfield County was established in 1785 as a part of the Camden District.
The town of Winnsboro, which was settled around 1755, is the county seat. It was settled
both by Scotch-Irish immigrants from northern colonies, and by English and French Huguenot cotton planters from the low country.
In the colonial period this area was a center for the Regulator movement, which sought to bring law and order to the backcountry.
During the Revolutionary War, Lord Cornwallis made his headquarters in Winnsboro from October 1780 to January 1781.
Early Settlers: Mobley, Killpatrick, Maple, Walker, Hendrix, Austin, Woodward, Williams, Sights, Gibson, Andrews, Thompson,
Brown, McKinstry, Alston, Marple, McCaulley, Durham, Davis, McMorris, Martin, Bell , Minor Winn, James Robertson, Benjamin Cleveland, and others.