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

 
Taxpayers Conventions | South Carolina Public Radio

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“T” is for Taxpayers' Conventions. In 1871 and 1874, white Democrats, frustrated with high taxes and the Republicans' domination of state government, held statewide conventions to register their...
Tynte, Edward | South Carolina Public Radio

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“T” is for Tynte, Edward [d. 1710]. Governor. Tynte was from a Somerset, England family that had recently risen to a baronetcy. Surviving English documents refer to him variously as major or colonel...