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David Drake lived in Edgefield, SC, as a slave and, after the Civil War, as a freedman who made distinctive stoneware pottery, often engraved with short poems or couplets.
Martin Witherspoon Gary was an attorney, soldier, and politician from South Carolina.
Jasper County was named for Revolutionary War hero Sergeant William Jasper (ca.1750-1779).
Greenwood County takes its name from its county seat, Greenwood. The city of Greenwood was named around 1824 for the plantation of an early resident, John McGehee.
The origin of the name of Darlington County is uncertain, but it may have been named for Darlington, England.
Charleston County and the city of Charleston, its county seat, are the most historic locations in the state. English settlers arrived in the colony of Carolina in 1670 and established a town at Albemarle Point on the west bank of the Ashley River.
The fuzzy sweet Peach (Prunus persica) was designated as the official State Fruit by Act Number 360 of 1984. South Carolina has over 18,000 acres of peach farms across the state.
(verb) - to leave the country where one lives and reside elsewhere
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