Kellett’s Blockhouse/Kellett-Babb Cemetery

Kellett’s Blockhouse or Kellett’s Station was a Revolutionary War-era foritification built on Rabon Creek by Joseph Kellett. Patriot troops were stationed there as early as 1776. It was located near the Cherokee boundary line, and men posted at the Blockhouse saw combat against Loyalist and Cherokee forces. Joseph Kellett supplied Patriot soldiers into the 1780s.

Kellett’s Blockhouse was likely located on the south fork of Rabon Creek, near what became the Kellett-Babb family cemetery. Local tradition holds the cemetery began as a burial place for Loyalist militia killed in a nearby skirmish. Marked graves date to at least the 1830s. A number of field stones mark earlier burial sites, which may include Joseph Kellett and others born in the 1700s.