Kellett’s Blockhouse

Kellett's Blockhouse, or Kellett's Station, was a Revolutionary War-era fortification built on Rabon Creek by Joseph Kellett. Patriot troops were stationed there as early as 1776. Located near the Cherokee boundary line, the men posted at the blockhouse saw combat against Loyalist and Cherokee forces. Joseph Kellett supplied Patriot soldiers into the 1780s. The blockhouse was likely on the south fork of Rabon Creek, near what became the Kellett-Babb family cemetery. Local tradition holds that the cemetery began as a burial place for Loyalist militia killed in a nearby skirmish. Marked graves date to at least the 1830s, and field stones mark earlier burial sites that may include Joseph Kellett and others born in the 1700s.

South Carolina · United States