B. Outdoor Recreation

Clyde Crocker's Birthday Party | History Of SC Slide Collection

Episode 1

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Clyde Crocker's birthday party was celebrated on an outdoor table in a back yard in Saxon Mill Village, Spartanburg, around 1910. Courtesy of the South Caroliniana Library.

Swimming In Black Creek | History Of SC Slide Collection

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Swimming in the tree-shaded waters of Black Creek has been a long tradition in the Hartsville-Darlington region; this group of bathers enjoyed the cool water sometime around 1920. Courtesy of the...

Hunting Wild Turkeys | History Of SC Slide Collection

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Hunting wild turkeys has been a sport and a means of providing food in South Carolina since before the arrival of the first European settlers. This turkey was shot by Calder W. Seibels of Columbia...

Myrtle Beach Picnic And Camping Facilities | History Of SC Slide Collection

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The picnic and camping facilities at Myrtle Beach State Park were one of the Civilian Conservation Corps construction projects completed for the South Carolina State Parks during the 1930s. Here a...

Outdoor Tea | History Of SC Slide Collection

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Winthrop students in the Home Economics Department prepare and serve an elaborate outdoor tea, around 1950. Note the white gloves and hats. Courtesy of the Winthrop University Archives.

A Day's Outing At The Beach | History Of SC Slide Collection

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Families enjoy a day's outing at the beach, July 4, 1955, in the separate areas on Hunting Island State Park set aside for African-Americans. New facilities were built for African-Americans in a...

Barbecuing | History Of SC Slide Collection

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Barbecue in its many forms is a tradition so important in South Carolina cuisine that regional variations in barbecue sauce were included in a recent geography of the state! Here, a St. Helena's...

A Picnic Near Rock Hill | History Of SC Slide Collection

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This photograph from the album of J.S. White records a picnic in the vicinity of Rock Hill in May of 1897. Courtesy of the Winthrop University Archives.

Rock Cliff Park | History Of SC Slide Collection

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Rock Cliff Park in Spartanburg provided a place to swim; a postcard view at the turn of the century shows the trolley that brought swimmers directly to the pool. Courtesy of the Howard G. Woody...

Fishing | History Of SC Slide Collection

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Margaret Law Trenholm and her friend Mrs. Plowden (in white) are dressed for fishing at the north causeway to Pawley's Island in 1910. From the Trenholm/Morgan Photograph Collection. Courtesy of the...