Check out virtual reality tours of some of South Carolina’s most interesting historical sites on your desktop computer or the Matterport App. Each tour includes an overview video and photo gallery.
In 2020, SCETV won a Bronze Telly Award in the "Immersive & Mixed Reality Craft-Use of VR" category for Let's Go! View the press release. The Telly Awards annually showcase the best work created within television and across video for all screens. Receiving more than 12,000 entries from all 50 states and five continents, Telly Award winners represent work from some of the most respected advertising agencies, television stations, production companies and publishers from around the world.
In 2018, SCETV won the Gold AVA Digital Award for Knowitall's Let's Go! View the press release.
View these schools and locations and learn more about their history!
The Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture is located on the site of the former Avery Normal Institute.
The childhood home of Dr. Benjamin E. Mays
Rev. Alexander Bettis, a former slave who could read but couldn't write, established Bettis Academy in 1882 to provide education for African-Americans in South Carolina.
From 1915-1974, Booker T. Washington High School served as a separate educational system for young African-Americans in Columbia, South Carolina.
The Columbia Museum of Art sparks powerful connections through art from around the corner and around the world in an environment that is welcoming to all.
The Florence C. Benson Elementary School was built in 1953-55 as Wheeler Hill School to serve African American students of the community and as a replacement for the overcrowded Celia Dial Saxon Negro Elementary...
Fort Hill, the antebellum plantation of John C. Calhoun, South Carolina’s pre-eminent 19th century statesman.
The first fort on Sullivan's Island
The H.L. Hunley submarine made history during the American Civil War when she became the first submarine to sink an enemy ship in combat.
Located in York County near Rock Hill, Brattonsville is home to structures that range from a pre-Revolutionary War cabin to an antebellum plantation.
The original Scott’s Branch High School was formed to serve African American students in Summerton, South Carolina.
The Mann-Simons Site, home to the same entrepreneurial African American family for nearly 130 years.
Built between 1890 and 1895, this one-story cottage was home to Modjeska Monteith Simkins, considered "the Matriarch of Civil Rights activists of South Carolina," from 1932 until her death on April 5, 1992.
The Penn Center, formerly the Penn School, is an African American cultural and educational center in the Corners Community, on Saint Helena Island.
Completed by 1713, The Powder Magazine is the oldest governmental building in South Carolina.
The South Carolina Confederate Relic Room and Military Museum's mission is to collect and preserve the military history of this state.
The museum features a timeline of South Carolina military history within two full exhibit galleries available for visitors to explore
Located in the capital city of Columbia, the State House and its grounds are a living monument to South Carolina’s rich history.
The Upcountry History Museum is a history museum in Greenville, South Carolina.
USS Yorktown (CV-10) was an Essex-class aircraft carrier that served with the US Navy in World War II and the Vietnam War.
The Woodrow Wilson House in Columbia is the only museum in the nation dedicated to telling the story of Reconstruction.
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