Curmudgeon
Los Angeles

A question about this place:
How, oh how, to find out the story behind Due West, South Carolina's solipsistic name?

Answers:

Adele
Spartanburg

According to a couple of websites I found while searching for the answer to this question:

Due West takes its name from an old trading post on the Cherokee Path (six miles west of the current town)established by a man named De Witt or Duett.

Curmudgeon
Los Angeles

Thank you kindly. I spotted the name of the place on the list of someone whose entries I was reading. “How very curious,” I thought. I mean, I live in L.A. and am, in fact, due-r West of many more places than is any South Carolina community. I did a search on Google before posting the question, but I must have been too hasty, since I didn’t come up with an answer. I think that henceforth, if anyone ever asks me where I am, I am going to declare simply, “West of Due West.”

duewest
0 places

I live in Due West. Whenever anybody asks me about it’s name, I tell them we’re really due west of nothing!


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