PICKENS — After the division of Pickens District into Oconee and Pickens counties in 1868, the citizens of Walhalla presented a number of deodora cedars to the town of Pickens, and then to Easley. The trees originated in the Himalaya Mountains of Asia and have fared well here in Upstate South Carolina.

The towering evergreens grace important spaces to this day and can be seen, among other places, along West Main Street and S.C. Highway 93 in Easley. A notable example stands in front of the offices of Blue Ridge Electric Cooperative on Main Street in

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