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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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Highway 301 | South Carolina Public Radio

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Highway 301 | South Carolina Public Radio
“H” is for Highway 301. Construction of this major U.S. highway in South Carolina began in 1932, when the federal government began taking over the maintenance and construction of many state roads. The...
Lords Proprietors of Carolina | South Carolina Public Radio Loggerhead Turtle | South Carolina Public Radio

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Loggerhead Turtle | South Carolina Public Radio
“L” is for Loggerhead Turtle. State Reptile. The loggerhead turtle, a threatened species, is one of the world’s eight living species of turtles and evolved some sixty-five million to seventy million...
Robert Mills House | South Carolina Public Radio Rainey, Joseph | South Carolina Public Radio

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Rainey, Joseph | South Carolina Public Radio
“R” is for Rainey, Joseph Hayne [1832-1887]. Congressman. Rainey was born a slave, but his father—a barber—was able to purchase his family's freedom. During the Civil War, he was forced to serve as a...
Wilkes Fund Controversy | South Carolina Public Radio Williamson, Andrew | South Carolina Public Radio

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Williamson, Andrew | South Carolina Public Radio
“W” is for Williamson, Andrew [ca. 1730-1786]. Soldier. Williamson immigrated to Ninety Six District from his native Scotland. He was a lieutenant during the Cherokee War. An ardent patriot at the...
Robert Mills House | South Carolina Public Radio Rivers | South Carolina Public Radio

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Rivers | South Carolina Public Radio
“R” is for Rivers. South Carolina has an abundance of rivers that originate within the state or that enter from Georgia and North Carolina and drain land as far away as Virginia. These rivers flow...
Furchgott, Robert Francis | South Carolina Public Radio

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Furchgott, Robert Francis | South Carolina Public Radio
“F” is for Furchgott, Robert Francis [1916-2009]. Pharmacologist. Nobel Prize Laureate. When he was a young boy growing up in Orangeburg, Furchgott’s first interest was natural history. After...
Geiger, Emily | South Carolina Public Radio Grave-Site Decoration | South Carolina Public Radio

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Grave-Site Decoration | South Carolina Public Radio
“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...
McKissick, James Rion | South Carolina Public Radio McNair, Robert Evander | South Carolina Public Radio

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McNair, Robert Evander | South Carolina Public Radio
“M” is for McNair, Robert Evander [1923-2007]. Attorney, legislator, governor. During World War II, McNair served 23 months in the Pacific theater. After the war, he graduated from USC and moved to...
Londonborough Township | South Carolina Public Radio

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Londonborough Township | South Carolina Public Radio
“L” is for Londonborough Township. At times referred to as Belfast and Londonderry, the 22,000-acre Londonborough Township was laid out on Hard Labor Creek in 1762. Originally designed to provide a...
Hill, Daniel Harvey | South Carolina Public Radio

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Hill, Daniel Harvey | South Carolina Public Radio
“H” is for Hill, Daniel Harvey [1821-1889]. Soldier. After graduating from West Point, Hill served in a series of battles in the Mexican War. When the Civil War began he was given command of the First...
Secession Crisis of 1850-51 | South Carolina Public Radio Segregation | South Carolina Public Radio

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Segregation | South Carolina Public Radio
“S” is for Segregation. Segregation, the residential, political, and social isolation of African Americans, by law and custom was accomplished in South Carolina in the last quarter of the 19th century...
Hillsborough Township | South Carolina Public Radio

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Hillsborough Township | South Carolina Public Radio
“H” is for Hillsborough Township. Located on the upper Savannah River in present-day McCormick County, Hillsborough Township was named after Wills Hill, viscount of Hillsborough and president of the...
Furman, Richard | South Carolina Public Radio

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Furman, Richard | South Carolina Public Radio
“F” is for Furman, Richard [1755-1825]. Minister, educator. In 1770, Furman’s family moved from New York to the High Hills of the Santee. Under the influence of a local minister, Furman abandoned his...
Black River | South Carolina Public Radio

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Black River | South Carolina Public Radio
“B” is for Black River. The Black River takes its name from its tea-colored waters. The river begins in the Sandhills of Lee County, and is joined at Rocky Bluff Swamp near Sumter. The Pocotaligo...
Evangel Cathedral | South Carolina Public Radio Evans, Matilda Arabella | South Carolina Public Radio

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Evans, Matilda Arabella | South Carolina Public Radio
“E” is for Evans, Matilda Arabella [1872-1935]. Physician. A native of Aiken, Evans attended Schofield Normal and Industrial School, Oberlin College’s preparatory school, and the Women’s Medical...
Grand Strand | South Carolina Public Radio Gray, Wil Lou | South Carolina Public Radio

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

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Drovers | South Carolina Public Radio
“D” is for Drovers. From around 1800 until the 1880s, livestock from Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia, and North Carolina were driven through Greenville County to the seaport at Charleston—destined for...
Columbia College | South Carolina Public Radio Charleston Mercury | South Carolina Public Radio

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Charleston Mercury | South Carolina Public Radio
“C” is for the Charleston Mercury. Although begun as a literary journal, the Charleston Mercury developed into one of the state’s most radical and combative newspapers. In 1821, a local bookseller...
Geiger, Emily | South Carolina Public Radio Grayson, William John | South Carolina Public Radio

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Grayson, William John | South Carolina Public Radio
“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...
Lords Proprietors of Carolina | South Carolina Public Radio Long, William Williams | South Carolina Public Radio

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Long, William Williams | South Carolina Public Radio
“L” is for Long, William Williams [1861-1934]. Agriculturalist. A native North Carolinian, Long worked his family farm before joining the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Bureau of Plant Industry. He...