Place:Craven, South Carolina, United States

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Name	Craven
Alt names	Craven County	source: 1664-1768 name
Type	County
Located in	South Carolina, United States (1729 - 1769)
Also located in	Province of Carolina (1664 - 1729)
See also	Berkeley, South Carolina, United States	1682 Child County
	Colleton, South Carolina, United States	1682 Child County

Craven was established in 1664 as one of the three original counties of the English colony of Carolina (Province of Carolina). It had no parent county. It existed for 105 years before being abolished in 1769.

Note: South Carolina did not officially exist as a separate colony until 1729 or a state until 1789, so Craven County never existed under the jurisdiction of the United States of America. Due a limitation of the current page titling method at WeRelate, this page appears to locate Craven County in "South Carolina, United States", while the intention is to locate Craven County in its last known jurisdiction, i.e. "South Carolina" (the British colony). Readers are asked to please interpret the location of this place page that way.

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1664 - Craven County is established in the English colony of Carolina (Province of Carolina) is one of the three original counties of Albemarle, Clarendon and Craven. The actual boundaries were never surveyed, but it is believed to have extended between the Cape Fear River to the north (now in North Carolina) and south to include present-day Georgia and northern Florida, and to extend as far west as the Pacific Ocean.

1670 - Craven County begins to see the first English settlers from Barbados who settle along the Ashley River in Charles Town (present-day Charleston, SC).

1682/83 - Craven County loses land to the new counties of Berkeley and Colleton.

1707 - Craven County becomes located in the British colony of Carolina.

1729 - Craven County becomes located in the British colony of South Carolina (Province of South Carolina).

1768 - Craven County is abolished along with all the other South Carolina counties. They are replaced with seven new "districts" each with its own governmental seat.