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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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"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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"E" is for Evans, John Gary [1863-1942]. Governor.
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"M" is for the McBee Chapel in Conastee. [Constructed 1841]
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"H" is for the Heyward-Washington House in Charleston [Built in 1772].
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"R" is for the Richardson Waltz, The. Our state waltz.
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"B" is for Big Thursday [1896-1902, renewed in 1909-present].
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"F" is for the Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina. [1669-1698]
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"D" is for Drayton, John [1766-1822]. Governor. Jurist. Author.
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"A" is for Asian Religions.
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“A” is for the African Methodist Episcopal Church. The African Methodist Episcopal Church [A.M.E.] is the oldest African American denomination in the country. In 1817, the efforts of white Methodists...
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“D” is for Drayton, William Henry [1742-1779]. Revolutionary Leader. Planter. He was educated in England. In 1769, his essay in the South Carolina Gazette, opposing the non-importation association...
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"F" is for Frazier, Joseph William [1944-2011]
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"B" is for Bennettsville. [1819-present] Marlboro County. Population 9,425.
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“F” is for Fundamentalists. The designation “fundamentalists” is an umbrella term that takes in many theologically conservative, evangelical Protestants from several denominations and independent...
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“P” is for Piedmont and Northern Railway. James B. Duke planned the Piedmont and Northern [P&N] electric railway to assist in the industrialization of the Piedmont region of the Carolinas. The line...
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“H” is for Highway 17. Also known as the Ocean Highway. U.S. Highway 17 enters South Carolina at the North Carolina border near Little River, then hugs the coast for almost two hundred miles before...
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“B” is for Black Business Districts. Prior to the Civil War, free persons of color in South Carolina owned businesses—generally in the service industry—such as blacksmith and harness shops. These...
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"M" is for McEntire Air National Guard Station. [1943-present]
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"A" is for Asparagus. Asparagus was an important cash crop in South Carolina from the 1910s until the mid-1930s. With cotton prices low and the boll weevil creeping closer, farmers in the "Ridge"...
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"T" is for the Town Theatre. [1919-present] Columbia. Longest continuously operating community theatre in the United States.