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South Carolina from A to Z | South Carolina Public Radio

From  Caesars Head to Hilton Head, and from the Lords Proprietors to Hootie and the Blowfish, historian Walter Edgar mines the riches of the South Carolina Encyclopedia to bring you South Carolina from A to Z.

South Carolina from A to Z is a production of South Carolina Public Radio in partnership with the University of South Carolina Press and SC Humanities.

 

 

 

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Hunting | South Carolina Public Radio

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Hunting | South Carolina Public Radio
"H" is for Hunting. Hunting has long been an important component of the Palmetto State’s culture. Indians hunted a wide assortment of game for food from as early as 13,000 B.C.E. Colonists also...
Hurricanes | South Carolina Public Radio

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Hurricanes | South Carolina Public Radio
"H" is for Hurricanes. The term “hurricane” comes from the West Indian word “hurrican,” which means “big wind.” Hurricanes are classified into five categories using the Saffir-Simpson scale based on...
Hutty, Alfred Heber | South Carolina Public Radio

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Hutty, Alfred Heber | South Carolina Public Radio
"H" is for Hutty, Alfred Heber (1877-1954). Artist. A native of Michigan, Hutty attended the Art Student League in Woodstock, New York. In 1919, in pursuit of a warmer place to spend winters, he...
Bull, William | South Carolina Public Radio Brown Fellowship Society | South Carolina Public Radio

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Brown Fellowship Society | South Carolina Public Radio
"B" is for Brown Fellowship Society. Established in 1790 by free persons of color in Charleston, the Brown Fellowship Society is one of the earliest institutions founded by African Americans in South...
Hunter-Gault, Charlayne | South Carolina Public Radio

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Hunter-Gault, Charlayne | South Carolina Public Radio
"H" is for Hunter-Gault, Charlayne (b. 1942). Journalist, civil rights activist. Hunter-Gault attended Wayne State University in Detroit before a judge allowed her to desegregate the University of...
Burnettown | South Carolina Public Radio

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Burnettown | South Carolina Public Radio
"B" is for Burnettown (Aiken County; 2010 population 2,673). Incorporated in 1941, Burnettown is located in the Horses Creek Valley of Aiken County. In 1890, Daniel Burnette purchased land along a...
Bull, William | South Carolina Public Radio Busbee, Cyril B. | South Carolina Public Radio

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Busbee, Cyril B. | South Carolina Public Radio
"B" is for Busbee, Cyril B. (1908-2001). Educator. In his early years, Busbee was a teacher, coach, and administrator in various schools in Georgia and South Carolina. In 1943, he moved to Brookland...
McSweeney, Miles Benjamin | South Carolina Public Radio Montgomery, John Henry | South Carolina Public radio

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Montgomery, John Henry | South Carolina Public radio
"M" is for Montgomery, John Henry (1833-1902). Manufacturer, merchant. In the late 1850s, Montgomery farmed and entered into general merchandising business. After service in the Civil War, he...
Praise Houses | South Carolina Public Radio

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Praise Houses | South Carolina Public Radio
"P" is for Praise Houses. “Praise houses” (sometimes called “prayer houses”) functioned on antebellum South Carolina plantations as both the epitome of slave culture and symbols of resistance to...
Pratt, Nathaniel Alpheus | South Carolina Public Radio

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Pratt, Nathaniel Alpheus | South Carolina Public Radio
"P" is for Pratt, Nathaniel Alpheus (1834-1906). Chemist, engineer, inventor. At the outbreak of the Civil War, Pratt, a native Georgian was named assistant chief of the Confederate States Nitre and...
Slave Patrols | South Carolina Public Radio

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Slave Patrols | South Carolina Public Radio
"S" is for Slave Patrols. Slave patrols were a crucial mechanism of slave control in colonial and antebellum South Carolina. Like the state’s earliest slave codes, the earliest slave patrol systems...
Geddings, Eli | South Carolina Public Radio Grosvenor, Vertamae | South Carolina Public Radio

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Grosvenor, Vertamae | South Carolina Public Radio
"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

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Guerard, Benjamin | South Carolina Public Radio
"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...
Simkins, Modjeska Monteith | South Carolina Public Radio

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Simkins, Modjeska Monteith | South Carolina Public Radio
“S” is for Simkins, Modjeska Monteith [1899-1992] Educator, civil rights organizer, community activist. Simkins’s inspiration to become an advocate for the black community came from her parents. After...
Bull, William | South Carolina Public Radio Brown, Thomas | South Carolina Public Radio

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Brown, Thomas | South Carolina Public Radio
"B" is for Brown, Thomas (1750-1825). Soldier. Brown was among the most notorious Loyalist commanders in the South during the American Revolution. He immigrated to Georgia in 1774, established a large...
Baptists | South Carolina Public Radio Burroughs and Chapin | South Carolina Public Radio

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Burroughs and Chapin | South Carolina Public Radio
"B" is for Burroughs & Chapin. Burroughs & Chapin Company, Inc., was formed in 1990 when the century-old Burroughs & Collins Company of Conway merged with Myrtle Beach Farms Company. Headquartered in...
Bull, William | South Carolina Public Radio Brown, Morris | South Carolina Public Radio

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Brown, Morris | South Carolina Public Radio
"B" is for Brown, Morris (1770-1849). Clergyman. Brown, a free mulatto, was born in Charleston. He received a license to preach as a Methodist lay preacher and organized an African congregation in...
Williamston | South Carolina Public Radio

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Williamston | South Carolina Public Radio
“W” is for Williamston [Anderson County; population 3,791]. Around 1842 West Allen Williams discovered a mineral spring on his property that gave rise to the town named for him. Stories of the spring...
Horry, Peter | South Carolina Public Radio

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Horry, Peter | South Carolina Public Radio
"H" is for Horry, Peter (ca. 1743-1815) Planter, soldier, legislator. In 1775, Peter Horry was commissioned a captain in the Second South Carolina Regiment. By 1780, he commanded the Fifth South...