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Discover how South Carolina helped shape the American Revolution. Explore the people, places, and pivotal moments that made the Palmetto State a turning point in the fight for independence.
South Carolina People
Isaiah DeQuincey Newman
Reverend Isaiah DeQuincey Newman was a minister and civil rights leader who became the first African American since 1887 to serve in the state Senate.
Benjamin Ryan Tillman
Benjamin Ryan Tillman was the governor of South Carolina from 1890-1894 who founded what is now Clemson University.
Alfred Hutty
Alfred Hutty was a painter during the Charleston Renaissance who worked in etching, oil, and watercolor.
South Carolina Counties
Charleston County
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.
Richland County
Richland County was probably named for its "rich land." The county was formed in 1785 as part of the large Camden District.
South Carolina Facts
South Carolina State Poet Laurate
The official State Poet Laureate was designated by Joint Resolution Number 736 of 1934. This resolution allows the Governor to appoint a Poet Laureate for the State. In 2003, former Governor Mark Sanford named Marjory Heath Wentworth as South Carolina's sixth Poet Laureate.
South Carolina Glossary
rice
(noun) - starchy seeds or grain of annual marsh grass. Rice was the largest commercial crop in 17th- and 18th-century Carolina, before cotton.
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