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Introduction ...
So far, we found very little information about Cana. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1>
We've added Cana to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Cana, please Contact Us.
We have a couple of goals for our Gazetteer:
- That it be a tool which helps us with planning our trips.
- We're trying to shape our Gazetteer as a tool to help us understand the community in which our ancestors lived, the community that was part of their daily lives.
- On our trips, we try to visit those places where our ancestors left their footprints.
By learning about Cana (and the surrounding area) during the time that our ancestors lived, we hope to have a better understanding of both their community and its relationship to their lifes. We hope that this tool helps to give us an insight into their world.
As we add data and organize our Gazetteer to help with our family research, we will be adding to this our Genealogical Helper for Cana. While we don't have information that is specific to any given person or family, we intend to expand our understanding about where and how people lived.
Neighboring Counties ...
When searching for family records, we have frequently made the mistake of not checking the neighboring counties.
For example, we have great-grandparents who lived in the northeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors were in the next county to the east. Almost all of the nearby churches and cemeteries were in the county to the north.
So when searching for records, we had our best success by looking in neighboring counties instead of the county in which they lived: their home county contained property and probate records; the county to the east contained birth and death records; the county to the north contained their burial records. If we hadn't included the neighboring counties, we would have missed many valuable sources of information.
If you're in a similar situation, we hope that the following information helps.
Although our information shows that the community of Cana is historic, it would have been located within present day Abbeville County.
To see how the shape of South Carolina's counties may have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Abbeville County: Elbert (GA), Anderson, Greenville, Greenwood, Laurens & McCormick.
Below are the counties that are near Cana. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Cana:
- Abbeville County (The home county of Cana)
- The following are listed by their distance from Cana, with the one closest to Cana listed first.
- Abbeville
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
- Due West
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
- Monterey ‑ Historic
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
- Monterey is located in Abbeville County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Monterey
- Donalds
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
- Ware Shoals
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
- Level Land
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
- Level Land is located in Abbeville County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Level Land
- Antreville
(18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
- Antreville is located in Abbeville County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Antreville
- Calhoun Falls
(18 miles [29 km] to the west)
- Latimer
(18 miles [29 km] to the west)
- Latimer is located in Abbeville County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Latimer
- Lake Secession
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
- Lake Secession is located in Abbeville County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lake Secession
- Lowndesville
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
- Honea Path
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
- Anderson County
- The following are listed by their distance from Cana, with the one closest to Cana listed first.
- Iva
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
- Iva is located in Anderson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Iva
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,341 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Iva <2>
- Starr
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
- Belton
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
- Deans
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
- Deans is located in Anderson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Deans
- Greenwood County
- The following are listed by their distance from Cana, with the one closest to Cana listed first.
- Promised Land
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
- Promised Land is located in Greenwood County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Promised Land
- Verdery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
- Verdery is located in Greenwood County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Verdery
- Greenwood Village
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
- Greenwood Village is located in Greenwood County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Greenwood Village
- Bradley
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
- Mathews Village
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
- Mathews Village is located in Greenwood County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mathews Village
- Panola Village
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
- Panola Village is located in Greenwood County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Panola Village
- Greenwood
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
- Grendel Village
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
- Grendel Village is located in Greenwood County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grendel Village
- Fairforest
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
- Fairforest is located in Greenwood County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fairforest
- Cokesbury
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
- Cokesbury is located in Greenwood County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cokesbury
- Hodges
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
- Troy
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
- Coronaca
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
- Coronaca is located in Greenwood County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coronaca
- Laurens County
- The following are listed by their distance from Cana, with the one closest to Cana listed first.
- Collins Lakeside Village
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
- Mount Gallagher
(18 miles [29 km] to the north)
- Mount Gallagher is located in Laurens County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mount Gallagher
- Anglers Haven
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
- Anglers Haven is located in Laurens County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Anglers Haven
- Waterloo
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
- Cross Hill
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
- Ekom
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
- Ekom is located in Laurens County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ekom
- Simpson ‑ Historic
(23 miles [37 km] to the north)
- Simpson is located in Laurens County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Simpson
- Cold Point
(23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
- Cold Point is located in Laurens County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cold Point
- Mountville
(23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
- Princeton
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
- Princeton is located in Laurens County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Princeton
- Lisbon ‑ Historic
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
- Lisbon is located in Laurens County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lisbon
- Laurens
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
- McCormick County
- The following are listed by their distance from Cana, with the one closest to Cana listed first.
- McCormick
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
- Willington
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
- Willington is located in McCormick County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Willington
- Liberty Hill
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
- Liberty Hill is located in McCormick County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Liberty Hill
- Mount Carmel
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
- Plum Branch
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
- Parksville
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
- Modoc
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
- Newberry County
- The following are listed by their distance from Cana, with the one closest to Cana listed first.
- Chappells
(23 miles [37 km] to the east)
- Mudlick
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
- Mudlick is located in Newberry County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mudlick
- Old Town Ferry
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
- Old Town Ferry is located in Newberry County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Old Town Ferry
- Saluda County
- Saluda
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
- Elbert County (GA)
- The following are listed by their distance from Cana, with the one closest to Cana listed first.
- Bowman Ferry
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
- Bowman Ferry is located in Elbert County (GA)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bowman Ferry
- Estimated population in 2019: 808 people
- Edinburg ‑ Historic
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
- Edinburg is located in Elbert County (GA)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Edinburg
- Estimated population in 2019: 1,396 people
- Lincoln County (GA)
- The following are listed by their distance from Cana, with the one closest to Cana listed first.
- Hesters Ferry
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
- Hesters Ferry is located in Lincoln County (GA)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hesters Ferry
- Estimated population in 2019: 911 people
- Lisbon ‑ Historic
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
- Lisbon is located in Lincoln County (GA)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lisbon
- Goshen
(23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
- Goshen is located in Lincoln County (GA)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Goshen
- Midway
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
- Midway is located in Lincoln County (GA)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Midway
- Lincolnton
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Cana, see our County-by-County Page for Cana.
Cemeteries Near Cana ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Cana.
This is a new section and is likely to have errors. If you find an error, such as a missing cemetery or we have the wrong name, please let us know. If you know of them, we would also appreciate learning about previous or alternate names.
Although we don't have the information ourselves, if you need information about a burial or interment, photos, transcripts, how to contact the cemetery or local authorities, please visit our list of websites on our Genealogy Helper Page for Cana - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Cana covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Cana, with the one closest to Cana listed first.
- Little Adams Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
- Big Adams Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
- Crossroads Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
- Tolbert Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
- Salem Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
- Lyon - Lipford Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
- Ebeneezer Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
- St. John Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the north)
- Cedar Grove Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
- Hillcrest Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
- Beaulah Baptist Church Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
- Trinity Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
- Continue List (220 more) ...
- Bethiah Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
- Mt. Pleasant Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
- Mathews Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
Nearby Communities in 1895 ...
We've built the following list with information that came from an Atlas published by Rand McNally in 1895. The Atlas had details such as the population of the community (which appears to have come from the 1890 Census) and whether there was a post office and/or railroad service available. We also indicate if the community no longer exists and is now historic.
Cana itself is historic and was described in the Rand McNally Atlas as having railroad service and no post office.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Cana, with the one closest to Cana listed first.
- Bradley
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
- Darraugh
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
- Darraugh is located in Abbeville County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Darraugh
- Greenwood
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
- Troy
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
- Hodges
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
- Watts
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
- Watts is located in Abbeville County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Watts
- Calhoun Mill
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
- Calhoun Mill is located in Abbeville County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Calhoun Mill
- Dover ‑ Historic
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
- Dover is located in Abbeville County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dover
- Due West
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
- Ninety Six
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
- McCormick
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
- Monterey ‑ Historic
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
- Monterey is located in Abbeville County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Monterey
- Continue List (16 more) ...
- Mount Carmel
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
- Donalds
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
- Level Land
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
- Level Land is located in Abbeville County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Level Land
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Cana. See our List of 1890's Communities around Cana.
Newspapers Published in Cana ...
An ongoing effort between the Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has resulted in the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).
To share their results, the partnership has created the Chronicling America website. The goal of this partnership is to assemble a database about the current and historic newspapers of the United States. This includes a growing collection of scanned images from selected papers. All of it available to the public on their website.
Using information that we've taken from the Chronicling America website, we've identified 52 newspapers that have been published in the area around Cana.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Cana, there are papers which were published within 15 miles [24.1 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Cana.
Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...
When we do our genealogical research, we like to start with the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These websites either offer the information directly or else point to where you can find it. Their information is open to everyone.
To help you get started, the following links will take you to the pages that are relevant to Cana:
- Websites specific to South Carolina
- Pages specific to Abbeville County
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- Anderson County
- Greenwood County
- Laurens County
- McCormick County
- Newberry County
- Saluda County
- Elbert County
- Lincoln County
- Cemetery Information and Directories for South Carolina
Footnotes ...
| <1> | We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Cana, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |
| <2> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |
| <3> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Cana) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |