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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. 

 

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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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What is Natural? | A Natural State 2

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What is Natural? | A Natural State
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The natural world pervades nearly every aspect of the Catawba pottery tradition. Nature-inspired motifs include the turtle, frog, black snake, snail, feather and palm leaf, and are often connected to...
Petroglyphs 4

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Petroglyphs
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Rock art at the Hagood Mill site is open to many interpretations. Is the imagery sacred, documentation of historic events, part of a simple amusement, or of a larger pictographic language? The answer...
Broom Handles from Nature | A Natural State 9

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Broom Handles from Nature | A Natural State
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Peter obtains many of his broom handles by collecting driftwood from rivers. Whitewater rivers of the Piedmont and Blue Ridge may yield rhododendron and dogwood, while the flat meandering rivers of...
Petroglyphs 5

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Petroglyphs
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Hundreds, possibly thousands, of years of weathering and erosion rendered the Hagood Mill site petroglyphs invisible to the naked eye. Amateur archaeologist Mike Bramlett discovered several of the...
Friendship | A Natural State 11

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Friendship | A Natural State
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Peter is a physical education professor at the University of South Carolina, where he teaches canoeing and kayaking as a healthy pursuit and a fun way to enjoy nature. In this video, we take a trip to...
Piccolo Labyrinth | A Natural State 1

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Piccolo Labyrinth | A Natural State
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Herb Parker's Piccolo Labyrinth, a nature-based sculpture of grass, sod and steel rebar, created a temporary, "quiet, contemplative space" on Charleston's waterfront. As an installation, the sculpture...
Teen Dating Violence | Palmetto Scene Gardens of Change | Palmetto Scene

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Gardens of Change | Palmetto Scene
Raking, planting and laughter could be heard for miles on Saturday as Boy and Girls Club members and community volunteers came together to plant a garden. The garden is a part of the project by the...
Land 11

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Land
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Native Americans called it "tree hair." French colonists changed it to "Barbe espagnole," or "Spanish Beard," to ridicule the Spanish conquest of the Americas. Spanish moss survives as its common name...
Touch the Earth | A Natural State 3

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Touch the Earth | A Natural State
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Herb Parker describes his work as belonging to three distinct realms: architecture, sculpture, and landscape. Passageways, thresholds, oculi, seating areas, and planned spaces of light and shade...
Spotlight 1

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Spotlight
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The ability to work with wood was an asset on rural farms where lifestyles required self-sufficiency and living off the land was common. As a boy, Tom carved his toys - small boats that he floated...
Land 9

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Land
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Robert Middleton left St. Helena at age 18, returning 45 years later after serving in the army, studying at Howard University, and a career of social work in Washington, D.C. and on an Apache Indian...
Land 8

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Land
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The Gullah community of St. Helena struggles to promote the island's cultural and natural resources while preserving the environment for future generations. Livelihoods based on fishing, farming and...
Land 10

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Land
Episode 10
Live oaks with broad, lumbering branches and beards of Spanish moss are a common sight in South Carolina’s coastal area. The tree’s resistance to wind and sea spray buffer the coast from seasonal...
Spotlight 1

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Spotlight
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Arianne grew up in a landscape of gardens, farms and the sea near Virginia Beach, Virginia. As a "child of nature," Arianne found an artistic release through dance and drawing. Arianne later studied...
Indigo Dye | A Natural State 7

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Indigo Dye | A Natural State
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Indigo was grown extensively on the Sea Islands from the middle 1600s - late 1700s. Blue stained hands were a mark of slaves in the dye making and application trade. Though synthetic dyes are now used...
Land 12

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Land
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Several generations of the St. Helena community attended the historic Penn School, established as one of the first schools for freed slaves. In the 1950s and 1960s, the site served as a safe retreat...
Spotlight 101

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Spotlight
Episode 101
Is topiary an attempt to control nature or a form of expression using a nature-based medium? The word topiary is derived from the Greek root word, topias, meaning ornamental garden. An account by...
Community 107

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Community
Episode 107
The Accessibility Project is an effort to reintroduce people to downtown Sumter by giving them a chance to experience art in public places. Many of the public art works are considered site-specific...
Topiary 113

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Topiary
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Most common topiary plants are evergreen and have small, dense leaves and branches; such as boxwood, yew and holly bushes. But Pearl says, "Anything that can be pruned can be shaped," which explains...
Topiary Garden 104

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Topiary Garden
Episode 104
The key to creating topiary is pruning. Pruning is the process of cutting off leaves and branches to encourage new growth and shape old growth. During the growing season, pruning is a daily affair in...
Community 108

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Community
Episode 108
Many students had never explored Sumter's downtown area before participating in the Mosaic Garden project. Even fewer had heard the terms site-specific, topiary, and public art. The project...