Memorials
Fort Pickens in Florida is named in his honor as is Pickens County, Alabama; Pickens County, Georgia; and Pickens and Pickens County in his adopted home state of South Carolina.
Pickens was a 7th great grandfather of former Senator and 2004 presidential candidate John Edwards.
He is also the namesake of Pickens High School.
Read more about this topic: Andrew Pickens (congressman)
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enduring instrument, of many centuries of
patient cultivation of the earth, of English
verse ...”
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