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Originally laid out in 1733 as Congarees Township, Saxe-Gotha Township was located southwest of the confluence of the Broad and Saluda Rivers. Named to honor the marriage of the then Prince of Wales, Frederick Louis Hannover, to Augusta, Princess of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg, the settlement contained “few, if any” Germans from Saxe-Gotha. German-speaking Swiss in Charleston petitioned […]