Places to Visit in S.C.

Find out about some of the places you can visit in different areas of our state...that are not all that far away! Enjoy your travels!

Row Of Stores On The East Side Of Second Street In Cheraw | History Of SC Slide Collection

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Row Of Stores On The East Side Of Second Street In Cheraw | History Of SC Slide Collection

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This row of four stores on the east side of Second Street in Cheraw is having a sidewalk sale, around 1908. Rocking chairs, bicycles, baby buggies, and rolls of wire are displayed on wooden platforms...

Market Street In Cheraw, Around 1900 | History Of SC Slide Collection

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Market Street In Cheraw, Around 1900 | History Of SC Slide Collection

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Market Street, Cheraw, looking west, around 1900. The white columned building at the right is the Lyceum, a library and meeting place for the Cheraw Lyceum Society, built in 1820. Courtesy of the...

The Town Hall In Cheraw | History Of SC Slide Collection

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The Town Hall In Cheraw | History Of SC Slide Collection

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The Town Hall in Cheraw, built in 1858 and photographed here in 1890, is still used as a meeting place for the Masons (who helped pay for it) and for city offices. County seat of Chesterfield County...

Aerial View Of Charleston, 1940 | History Of SC Slide Collection

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Aerial View Of Charleston, 1940 | History Of SC Slide Collection

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Aerial view of the City of Charleston around 1940. Courtesy of the South Caroliniana Library.

Hurricane Damage To Charleston Ferry Wharf, 1911 | History Of SC Slide Collection

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Hurricane Damage To Charleston Ferry Wharf, 1911 | History Of SC Slide Collection

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The fall months are traditionally the season of heavy storms along the Carolina Coast. This photograph shows the damage to the Charleston Ferry wharf after a hurricane in 1911. Courtesy of the South...

Riverland Terrace Development Brochure, 1925 | History Of SC Slide Collection

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Riverland Terrace Development Brochure, 1925 | History Of SC Slide Collection

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St. Andrew's Parish on James Island was one of the early suburban development sites for an expanding 20th century Charleston. The new Ashley River Bridge, completed in 1926, led investors to lay out...

King Street Postcard, 1916 | History Of SC Slide Collection

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King Street Postcard, 1916 | History Of SC Slide Collection

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King Street, looking south in this 1916 postcard view, proudly displays electric street lights. Courtesy of the Howard G. Woody Postcard Collection.

The Custom House Of Charleston | History Of SC Slide Collection

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The Custom House Of Charleston | History Of SC Slide Collection

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The Custom House of Charleston, viewed from the harbor in 1899. Begun in 1850 with Federal funds, intended as the crowning glory of Charleston's antebellum civic architecture, the classical revival...

King Street In Charleston, 1925 | History Of SC Slide Collection

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King Street In Charleston, 1925 | History Of SC Slide Collection

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King Street in Charleston, looking north around 1925. Courtesy of the South Caroliniana Library.

The Promenade On The East Battery, 1910 | History Of SC Slide Collection

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The Promenade On The East Battery, 1910 | History Of SC Slide Collection

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The promenade on the East Battery, Charleston, in 1910. Courtesy of the South Caroliniana Library.

The Ruins Of The Circular Congregational Church, 1865 | History Of SC Slide Collection

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The Ruins Of The Circular Congregational Church, 1865 | History Of SC Slide Collection

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The ruins of the Circular Congregational Church, photographed in 1865, show the devastation that fire and war brought on the city of Charleston. Courtesy of the Library of Congress.

Birds-Eye View Of Charleston, 1853 | History Of SC Slide Collection

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Birds-Eye View Of Charleston, 1853 | History Of SC Slide Collection

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This birds-eye view of Charleston, drawn and engraved in 1853, was widely reproduced in "Harper's Illustrated Weekly" for the next decade; it became the visual image most outsiders had of what the...

Long Billed Curlews By James Audubon | History Of SC Slide Collection

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Long Billed Curlews By James Audubon | History Of SC Slide Collection

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The artist James Audubon (see John James Audubon) first came to Charleston in late October of 1831, and was so welcomed by its citizens, particularly the Reverend John Bachman (see John Bachman) that...

Old Market And Court House, 1836 Engraving | History Of SC Slide Collection

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Old Market And Court House, 1836 Engraving | History Of SC Slide Collection

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This small engraving showing a faded sketch of the "Old Market and Court House, 1836" was probably copied from an earlier sketch of Camden as it appeared around 1820. Courtesy of the South Caroliniana...

Plat Map Of Camden | History Of SC Slide Collection

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Plat Map Of Camden | History Of SC Slide Collection

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The town of Camden was one of the first official settlements to be laid out in the interior of South Carolina in the 1730s. Settlers flooded into the backcountry during the quarter century of peace...

Camden's Main Street, 1910 | History Of SC Slide Collection

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Camden's Main Street, 1910 | History Of SC Slide Collection

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Camden's Main Street, around 1910. Courtesy of the South Caroliniana Library.

The Kershaw County Courthouse | History Of SC Slide Collection

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The Kershaw County Courthouse | History Of SC Slide Collection

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The Kershaw County Courthouse was designed by famed South Carolina architect Robert Mills and built in 1826. The original courthouse had Ionic columns; local citizens, who wanted a more "modern"...

Pelicans Nesting In the Cape Romain Wildlife Refuge | History Of SC Slide Collection

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Pelicans Nesting In the Cape Romain Wildlife Refuge | History Of SC Slide Collection

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Pelicans nest in the Cape Romain Wildlife Refuge on Bulls Island in 1944. Photo by William Baldwin for the U.S. Biological Survey. Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration.

Main Street In Branchville, 1907 | History Of SC Slide Collection

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Main Street In Branchville, 1907 | History Of SC Slide Collection

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In 1842, a branch of the South Carolina Railroad, which had originally been built between Charleston and Hamburg (near Augusta), was constructed to connect Charleston to Columbia. The point of...

County Courthouse And Confederate Monument In Bennettsville | History Of SC Slide Collection

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County Courthouse And Confederate Monument In Bennettsville | History Of SC Slide Collection

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The county courthouse and Confederate monument in Bennettsville, county seat of Marlboro County, in a 1915 postcard view. Marlboro County has been an important agricultural center (first for the...

Belton Water Tower | History Of SC Slide Collection

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Belton Water Tower | History Of SC Slide Collection

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Belton, in Anderson County, is noted for its unusual standpipe or water tower. Here, the standpipe can be seen in the background of the Belton Square, around 1909. The town, like many other South...