Fair Forest Plantation / Emslie Nicholson House

Historical marker location:

Union, South Carolina

( Marker is on Cross Keys Highway (State Highway 49) ½ mile west of Riley Road, on the right when traveling west.)

Marker installed: 2008

South Carolina was one of the original thirteen colonies that declared independence from Great Britain in 1776. However, it was also the first state to secede from the United States in 1860, which ultimately led to the Civil War.