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Pickens County Veterans War Memorial, Garden and Wall of Valor

Pickens County keeps a Veterans War Memorial, Garden and Wall of Valor behind the county courthouse at the south portico entrance in Pickens, open day and night seven days a week, honouring General Andrew Pickens, the county's war dead on the Wall of Valor and its four Congressional Medal of Honor recipients.

Also called: war memorial, Wall of Valor, Andrew Pickens, Medal of Honor, courthouse, memorial garden, Pickens, Easley, Clemson, Liberty, Central.

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The county's page: "The Pickens County Veterans War Memorial, Garden and Wall of Valor (picture above) honors General Andrew Pickens and the people of Pickens County who fought and died in all our wars." It is multi-cultural and multi-national: the memorial features a bronze statue of General Andrew Pickens overlooking the names of the Pickens war dead on the Wall of Valor, bronze plaques honouring the British garrison at Fort Prince George and the Cherokee chiefs who fell in the Carolina Indian Wars, a War of American Independence plaque for the Jewish patriot Francis Salvador, a monument to three of the county's African-American soldiers, a garden dedicated to the county's four Congressional Medal of Honor recipients, and a monument to the county's only war correspondent, Ben Robertson; the statue of General Pickens honours the county's textile workers who served on the home front. Hours of operation: open day and night, seven days a week, no holiday closings. Location: in Pickens, behind the courthouse at the south portico entrance.

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