The Long Canes was a human settlement of colonial South Carolina in North America that was peopled by squatters around 1756.
[2] In 1747, whites had traded ammunition valued at £189 to "the headmen of the Lower Towns...for the Cherokee lands between Long Canes and Ninety Six, defining the new boundary as extending along Long Cane Creek to its head, thence to the head of the nearest tributary of the Saluda, along that stream to the river, and from that point north to the Catawba-Cherokee path.
[5] There was another Cherokee attack in 1763 on the Long Canes in which "fourteen people in one house" were killed.
[6] The name Long Canes refers to a type of landscape common to the U.S. South called a canebrake.
[5] The region is now part of the Long Cane Ranger District of Sumter National Forest.