Talk:Ninety Six, South Carolina

Notable Persons - David Vickery ?

The paragraph Notable Persons lists a David Vickery, who led the school band to a state championship...The notability of this person in this format (Wikipedia) is questionable...Remove? Engr105th (talk) 23:18, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

Error in Geography section

The Geography section includes the phrase "town has a total area of 1.5 square miles (3.8 km²), all of it time." Presumably this was intended to say that all of it is in a particular time zone, but as written, it's incoherent. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.19.42.223 (talk) 23:20, 1 July 2009 (UTC)

Would imagine that the intent was "all of it land" since the typical comment following the area of a municipality is a breakdown of how much of it consists of land and how much water. 2600:1004:B10C:6BBB:C4BD:D166:3518:B952 (talk) 00:51, 9 November 2016 (UTC)

Andrew Williamson

Something can be added to this article about Andrew Williamson (soldier) "Besieged by the Loyalists in Ninety Six, he signed the treaty with them on Nov. 21, 1775", which indicates that before the siege mentioned in the text there was an earlier one with Loyalists (Tories) attacking Patriots (Whigs). -- WILLIAMSON, ANDREW (c. 1730–Mar. 2I, I786), freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com, retrieved 2009-11-03. Page states the text is from the Dictionary of American Biography. -- PBS (talk) 12:48, 3 November 2009 (UTC)

Placenames with numbers

Perhaps include Number Nine, New York? It is somewhat hard to Google, but here is one link to a NY State Forest located in Number Nine: [1] — Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.37.22.231 (talk) 01:10, 9 September 2012 (UTC)

Actual style of name

Is it "Ninety-Six" or "Ninety Six"? There is no consistency even within the article of the place itself, nor amongst the ones describing the various battles, persons, or other associations. The definitive answer would seem to be how the charter granted by the State of South Carolina styles it. Anyone have access to that? 2600:1004:B10C:6BBB:C4BD:D166:3518:B952 (talk) 00:54, 9 November 2016 (UTC)

Legend of Isaqueena

Ninety Six appears prominently in the legend of Isaqueena. According to the legend, Catachee/Isaqueena named Ninety Six during her famous ride. Should the etymology section mention this?

• http://www.patricksquare.com/blog/the-legend-of-issaqueena
• 1898 historic descriptive poem "Cateechee of Keeowee" by James Walter Daniel https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/009561406

156.143.240.137 (talk) 15:18, 21 March 2017 (UTC)

Possibly named for a series of streams

From http://library.furman.edu/specialcollections/96Press/about.htm South Carolina historian David P. George, Jr., hypothesizes that it derives from the old phrase "nine and six." In pre-Revolutionary times, a section of the traders' path running from Charleston to the Cherokee nation was known by this name because of a unique grouping of nine and then six streams crossing the path in the vicinity of the present-day Ninety-Six. See George's article "Ninety Six Decoded: Origins of a Community's Name," South Carolina Historical Magazine 92 (1991): 69-84. 156.143.240.137 (talk) 19:05, 2 May 2017 (UTC)