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)
Famous quotes containing the word memorials:
“My titillations have no foot-notes
And their memorials are the phrases
Of idiosyncratic music.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)
“Let these memorials of built stone music’s
enduring instrument, of many centuries of
patient cultivation of the earth, of English
verse ...”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)
“Our public monuments are memorials to the Enlightenment.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)