40 Acre Rock South Carolina
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Forty Acre Rock in eastern Lancaster County, a National Natural Landmark, is the major attraction of the Flat Creek Heritage Preserve, part of a 1300 acre tract held by the SC Wildlife and Marine Resources Department, Heritage Trust Program. In his book, Geography of South Carolina, published in 1843, William Gilmore Simms gave a description of a large exposed granite mass, also in Lancaster County, called Flat Rock. What he said about Flat Rock, except for the size, could also have been written of Forty Acre Rock. Simms wrote, "Flat Rock is a mighty mass, 500 yards across, composed of a very closely cemented and hard gravel. Its name is derived from its level surface, which is covered with numerous pits or cisterns hollowed out, as is supposed, by the Indians for holding water." At Forty Acre Rock, it is believed that the Indians ground their corn in hollowed pits on the rock's surface. One particularly large pit was known by the early settlers as "King Hagler's Punchbowl," in reference to the popular Catawba king who was slain by Shawnee Indians in 1763* *Sources Private
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