Pickens, formerly called Pickens Courthouse, is a city in Pickens County, South Carolina, United States. The population was 3,126 at the 2010 census. Pickens changed its classification from a town to a city in 1998, but it was not reported to the Census Bureau until 2001. It is the county seat of Pickens County. It was named after Andrew Pickens (1739–1817), an American revolutionary soldier and US Congressman for South Carolina.
Pickens is part of the Greenville–Mauldin–Easley Metropolitan Statistical Area.
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A mountain town in western South Carolina, Pickens is a quiet, peaceful community, a throwback to a yesteryear that hardly exists in today’s hustle and bustle, a neighborhood of rocking on the front porch and waving to the neighbors with a smile. I’m home.