Historian Walter Edgar mines the riches of the South Carolina Encyclopedia to bring you South Carolina from A to Z.

 
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 Gospel Music | South Carolina Public Radio
Gospel Music | South Carolina Public Radio

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Grades: 6 7 8

"G" is for Gospel Music. Gospel music as a genre consists of two major categories, White Gospel and Black Gospel. Both styles share similar musical routes that stem from the evangelical religious...
 Grand Strand | South Carolina Public Radio
Grand Strand | South Carolina Public Radio

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"G" is for Grand Strand. South Carolina’s Grand Strand is an uninterrupted strip of sandy beaches that officially stretches along sixty miles of Horry and Georgetown Counties from the North Carolina...
 Graniteville Company | South Carolina Public Radio
Graniteville Company | South Carolina Public Radio

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Grades: 6 7 8

“G” is for Graniteville Company. Chartered by the South Carolina General Assembly in 1845, the Graniteville Company was one of the earliest and most successful textile manufacturing operations in the...
 Grave-Site Decoration | South Carolina Public Radio
Grave-Site Decoration | South Carolina Public Radio

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Grades: 6 7 8

“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...
 Gray, Wil Lou | South Carolina Public Radio
Gray, Wil Lou | South Carolina Public Radio

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Grades: 6 7 8

“G” is for Gray, Wil Lou [1883-1984]. Educator, public servant. Gray was a native of Laurens where members of her family were influential civic leaders, devoted Methodists, and contributors to the...
 Grayson, William John | South Carolina Public Radio
Grayson, William John | South Carolina Public Radio

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Grades: 6 7 8

“G” is for Grayson, William John [1788-1863]. Politician, planter, poet. Grayson spent much of his youth on Parris Island, the inspiration for his later pastoral verse. He graduated at the top of his...
 Great Wagon Road, The | South Carolina Public Radio
Great Wagon Road, The | South Carolina Public Radio

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“G” is for the Great Wagon Road. The Great Wagon Road stretched for almost eight hundred miles from Philadelphia west to York and Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and thence south through Virginia into the...
 Greeks | South Carolina Public Radio
Greeks | South Carolina Public Radio

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Grades: 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Higher Education

“G” is for Greeks. Greek immigrants began arriving in South Carolina at the turn of the 20th century, seeking to escape the economic stagnation of their own country. They quickly found a niche in...
 Green, Jonathan | South Carolina Public Radio
Green, Jonathan | South Carolina Public Radio

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Grades: 6 7 8

“G” is for Jonathan Green [b. 1955]. Painter, print maker. Born in Gardens Corner in Beaufort County, Green served in the Air Force before enrolling as a textile design student at the East Grand Forks...
 Greene, Nathanael | South Carolina Public Radio
Greene, Nathanael | South Carolina Public Radio

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Grades: 6 7 8

“G” is for Greene, Nathanael [1742-1786]. Soldier. Early in the Revolution, Rhode Islander Nathanael Greene became close to George Washington and served on his staff. After the battle of Camden...
 Grosvenor, Vertamae | South Carolina Public Radio
Grosvenor, Vertamae | South Carolina Public Radio

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Grades: 6 7 8

"G" is for Grosvenor, Vertamae (1938-2016). Writer, culinary anthropologist. A native of Allendale County, Grosvenor moved with her family to Philadelphia when she was ten. After high school she lived...
 Guerard, Benjamin | South Carolina Public Radio
Guerard, Benjamin | South Carolina Public Radio

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Grades: 6 7 8

"G" is for Guerard, Benjamin (d. 1788). Governor. Guerard studied law in England and was admitted to the South Carolina bar in 1761. He served in the Commons House, but spent most of his time dealing...