Cherokee Path

Cherokee Path, Sterling Land Grant
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
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Location	5 miles southeast of St. Matthews on South Carolina Highway 6, St. Matthews, South Carolina
Coordinates	33°38′11″N 80°42′28″W / 33.63639°N 80.70778°W / 33.63639; -80.70778
Area	2 acres (0.81 ha)
NRHP reference No.	76001696[1]
Added to NRHP	May 13, 1976

The Cherokee Path (or Keowee path) was the primary route of English and Scots traders from Charleston to Columbia, South Carolina in Colonial America. It was the way they reached Cherokee towns and territories along the upper Keowee River and its tributaries. In its lower section it was known as the Savannah River. They referred to these towns along the Keowee and Tugaloo rivers (in modern Georgia) as the Lower Towns, in contrast to the Middle Towns in Western North Carolina and the Overhill Towns in present-day southeastern Tennessee west of the Appalachian Mountains.