Hopewell was the family home of Revolutionary War hero and Indian Commissioner General Andrew Pickens and his wife, Rebecca Calhoun Pickens. Their son, Andrew Pickens, who served as South Carolina governor from 1816 to 1818, later owned Hopewell, and it was also the childhood home of his son, Francis Wilkinson Pickens, South Carolina governor from 1860 to 1862. Three hundred yards northwest, on November 28, 1785, U.S. treaty commissioners Benjamin Hawkins, Andrew Pickens, Joseph Martin, and Lachlan McIntosh met with 918 Cherokees and signed the first treaty between the United States of America and the Cherokee Nation. Similar treaties were signed there with the Choctaws and Chickasaws on January 3 and 10, 1786.
