Editor’s note: Paul O’Shields is a local native who enjoys writing about his time as a youngster growing up in Pickens County. This is his first column for the Courier.

There was a place that my best friend Joe and I frequented called the Horse Pasture. It was a beautiful wilderness area in northern Pickens and Oconee counties, and it was open to the public. I believe this is where the confluence of the Whitewater River and Green River was located. Downward it becomes the Tugaloo River. We camped, fished and hunted up there. Little did we know that when we grew up, this pristine area would be at the bottom of Lake Jocassee. It would have to be relived in our dreams.

As you enter Horse Pasture from the east off U.S. Highway 178, a small creek (Cane Creek?) runs along the side of the road after you drive a few miles. As you continue to drive, at a right-hand

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