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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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"M" is for McKissick, James Rion [1844-1944]. Journalist. Educator. University President.
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"T" is for Truck Farming [1868-present].
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"C" is for Chalmers, Lionel [1715-1777]. Physician. Scientist.
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"C" is for Charleston Hospital Workers Strike [1969].
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"D" is for the Dock Street Theatre.
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"D" is for Drayton, Percival [1812-1865] In 1864, he commanded Admiral David Farragut's flagship, the U.S.S. Hartford, at the Battle of Mobile Bay. It was to Percival Drayton that Farragut shouted the...
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"P" is for Pickens, William [1881-1954] Educator. Author. Civil Rights Advocate.
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"S" is for Scofield Normal and Industrial School [1871-1953].
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“A” is for Ayllón, Lucas Vázquez de [ca. 1480-1526]. Colonizer; Explorer. Ayllón, the founder of the first Spanish town in what is now the United States, was a native of Toledo, Spain. By 1504, he...
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"P" is for Phifer, Mary Hardy [1879-1962] Journalist.
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"R" is for Right to Work Law [Taft-Hartley Act, 1947-present]
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“M” is for McMillan, Claude Richelieu [1899-1961]. Engineer. After graduating from USC with a degree in civil engineering, McMillan went to work with the South Carolina Highway Department. In 1941...
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"H" is for Hemphill, Robert Witherspoon, Sr. [1915-1983] Congressman. Jurist. Solicitor 6th Circuit. 4th Judicial Circuit.
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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...
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“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...
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"D" is for Dr. Buzzard.
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"C" is for Chamberlain, Daniel Henry. [1835-1907] Governor. Attorney General.
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“E” is for Eutaw Springs, Battle of [September 8 1781]. The Battle of Eutaw Springs was the last major engagement in South Carolina during the Revolutionary War. In the bloody encounter, some two...
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"E" is for Epidemics. [1680s-1940s]
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"A" is for Asian Religions.