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Explore South Carolina

Learn about South Carolina. You may be surprised at what you'll find!  

In addition to the topics below, you can also delve into South Carolina's history by visiting the Social Studies section.

Public schools observe John C. Calhoun's birthday, March 18, as South Carolina Day. 

 

Within this Collection

Collection About South Carolina
About South Carolina
Collection Agriculture
Agriculture
Collection Business & Industry Today
Business & Industry Today
Collection Education
Education
Collection Food & Drinks
Food & Drinks
Collection Habitats
Habitats
Collection Music
Music
Collection National Great Outdoors Month
National Great Outdoors Month

National Great Outdoors Month is celebrated in June and serves as a reminder to enjoy and appreciate our state parks and wildlife refuges. This observation, begun in 1998, encourages us to explore our parks and...

Collection National Peach Month
National Peach Month

South Carolina is second in the nation in peach production.

Collection Places to Visit in S.C.
Places to Visit in S.C.
Collection Religion
Religion
Collection S.C. State Symbols
S.C. State Symbols
Collection Towns & Cities
Towns & Cities
Collection Visual & Performing Arts
Visual & Performing Arts
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Geiger, Emily | South Carolina Public Radio Grave-Site Decoration | South Carolina Public Radio

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Grave-Site Decoration | South Carolina Public Radio
“G” is for Grave-Site Decoration. West Africans transported to South Carolina as slaves had their own belief system regarding death, burial, and the power of the living and the dead. Shiny or...
Lords Proprietors of Carolina | South Carolina Public Radio Loggerhead Turtle | South Carolina Public Radio

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Loggerhead Turtle | South Carolina Public Radio
“L” is for Loggerhead Turtle. State Reptile. The loggerhead turtle, a threatened species, is one of the world’s eight living species of turtles and evolved some sixty-five million to seventy million...
Drayton Hall | South Carolina Public Radio

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Drayton Hall | South Carolina Public Radio
“D” is for Drayton Hall [Charleston County]. Established in 1738, Drayton Hall is a historic plantation located between the Ashley River and Ashley River road—about nine miles from Charleston. At the...
Dubose, William Porcher | South Carolina Public Radio

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Dubose, William Porcher | South Carolina Public Radio
“D” is for DuBose, William Porcher [1836-1918]. Professor, theologian. DuBose studied for the ordained ministry at the Theological Seminary of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Diocese of South...
Fireproof Building | South Carolina Public Radio Furman University | South Carolina Public Radio

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Furman University | South Carolina Public Radio
“F” is for Furman University. In 1825, the South Carolina Baptist Convention elected a board to organize an institution to train young men for the ministry. The school opened in Edgefield in 1827 and...
Lords Proprietors of Carolina | South Carolina Public Radio Long, William Williams | South Carolina Public Radio

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Long, William Williams | South Carolina Public Radio
“L” is for Long, William Williams [1861-1934]. Agriculturalist. A native North Carolinian, Long worked his family farm before joining the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Bureau of Plant Industry. He...
Columbia College | South Carolina Public Radio Charleston Museum | South Carolina Public Radio

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Charleston Museum | South Carolina Public Radio
“C” is for Charleston Museum. Founded in 1773, the museum originated as an auxiliary of the Charleston Library Society, dedicated to the collection, preservation, and study of “materials promoting a...
Drayton Hall | History of SC Slide Collection

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Drayton Hall | History of SC Slide Collection
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Drayton Hall, built between 1738 and 1742 by John Drayton on the banks of the Ashley River in St. Andrew's Parish, Charleston County, has been declared a National Historic Landmark. It is currently...
Pinckney Island Wildlife Refuge | South Carolina Public Radio Pinckney, Eliza Lucas | South Carolina Public Radio

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Pinckney, Eliza Lucas | South Carolina Public Radio
“P” is for Pinckney, Eliza Lucas [ca. 1722-1793]. Planter. Matriarch. Born in the West Indies, Eliza Lucas moved to South Carolina with her family in the 1730s. In 1739, her father returned to the...
Dorchester | South Carolina Public Radio Duke’s Mayonnaise | South Carolina Public Radio

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Duke’s Mayonnaise | South Carolina Public Radio
“D” is for Duke’s Mayonnaise. Duke’s Mayonnaise is one of the South’s favorite condiments. Around 1917, Eugenia Duke mixed her first batch of mayonnaise in her Greenville home. Unlike similar...
AME Zion Church | South Carolina Public Radio

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AME Zion Church | South Carolina Public Radio
“A” is for African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church. The A.M.E. Zion church is on of the seventh largest black denominations. It had its beginnings in New York in the early 19th century and by the...