Seneca is located in Oconee County, on the southern shore of Lake Keowee, which forms the northwestern tip of South Carolina and borders both Georgia and North Carolina. Originally called “Seneca City,” it was founded in 1873 at the point where two railroad lines connecting Atlanta and Charlotte crossed. (Earlier, a Native American village named Esseneca was settled by the Cherokee near present-day Clemson University.)   Seneca recently adopted the motto “City of Smiles, City with Style.” The population was 8,102 at the 2010 census. It is the principal city of the Seneca Micropolitan Statistical Area (population 74,273 according to the...