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South Carolina People
Queen Quet
Marquetta L. Goodwine, better known as Queen Quet is an author, preservationist, and artist who serves as Chieftess of the Gullah/Geechee Nation.
William Moultrie
William Moultrie was a general in the Revolutionary War who had Fort Moultrie built out of Palmetto logs on Sullivan’s Island, in the Charleston Harbor.
Percival Everett
Percival Everett is a novelist, short story writer, poet, and Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Southern California.
David Beasley
David Beasley is the Executive Director of the United Nations World Food Programme, and he served one term as the 113th Governor of SC from 1995 until 1999.
South Carolina Counties
York County
York County and its county seat, the city of York, were named for York County, Pennsylvania.
Abbeville County
Both the county and its county seat, the town of Abbeville, were named for the French town of the same name.
Marion County
Marion County and its county seat, the town of Marion, were named for Revolutionary War general Francis Marion (1732-1795), known as the "Swamp Fox."
South Carolina Facts
South Carolina State Music
The Spiritual was designated as the official State Music by Act Number 64 of 1999. A spiritual is a type of religious folksong that is most closely associated with the struggles of slavery and the hope of freedom for the enslaved Africans in the American South.
South Carolina Glossary
mineral
(noun) - an inorganic material formed by geological processes in the earth
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