Places and Regions in South Carolina

Learn about the six landform regions, counties, river systems and climate regions in South Carolina. Also, learn how people interact with the physical landscape.

Interior of a Mill Village Home | History of SC Slide Collection

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Interior of a Mill Village Home | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 6

The interior of a mill village home in Spartanburg around 1920 is a marked contrast to the contents and design of the Victorian interiors of the wealthy (see Interior Décor Of The Victorian Era, Front...

Interior View of an Unidentified Columbia Living Room | History of SC Slide Collection

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Interior View of an Unidentified Columbia Living Room | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 5

An interior view of an unidentified Columbia living room, with an upright piano in the right corner, around 1900. Courtesy of the South Carolina State Museum.

Blondell Malone In Her Gervais Street Home | History of SC Slide Collection

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Blondell Malone In Her Gervais Street Home | History of SC Slide Collection

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Blondell Malone, in what she describes as the "hall" of her Gervais Street home, around 1910. The paintings on the wall were her own. (For examples of external decoration of the period, see images 30...

Front Hall Of Camden's Mulberry Plantation | History of SC Slide Collection

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Front Hall Of Camden's Mulberry Plantation | History of SC Slide Collection

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The front hall of Camden's Mulberry Plantation, with its beautiful interior curving stairway, did not escape the decorative impact of the Victorian era. (For examples of the external decoration of the...

Interior Décor Of The Victorian Era | History of SC Slide Collection

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Interior Décor Of The Victorian Era | History of SC Slide Collection

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The interior décor of the Victorian era reflected the consumer society that America had become by the late 19th century. Filled with elaborately designed "things" - objects of art as well as of use...

Bedroom Of This Rock Hill Home | History of SC Slide Collection

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Bedroom Of This Rock Hill Home | History of SC Slide Collection

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The mother of the boys who lived in the bedroom of this Rock Hill home labeled the 1898 photograph of it (in her album "The Blue Room") and gave the cry of mothers everywhere who have told their...

Brochure by the Southern Railway | History of SC Slide Collection

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Brochure by the Southern Railway | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 6

A brochure put out by the Southern Railway describes "Camden, SC 1908, A Winter Tourist Resort on the Southern Railway." Photos inside the brochure lure tourists with a description of the beauties of...

The Gardens At Court Inn | History of SC Slide Collection

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The Gardens At Court Inn | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 5

Camden was famous for its elaborate formal gardens. This photograph of the gardens at Court Inn, around the turn of the century, shows benches placed under an ivy-covered shelter. Courtesy of the...

Middleton Place Gardens Along The Ashley River | History of SC Slide Collection

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Middleton Place Gardens Along The Ashley River | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 4

Middleton Place gardens along the Ashley River. This photograph around the 1920s shows the grounds at Middleton Place before they were redesigned and replanted. (See Middleton Place) Courtesy of the...

Original Middleton Place Mansion | History of SC Slide Collection

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Original Middleton Place Mansion | History of SC Slide Collection

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The original Middleton Place mansion was destroyed after the Civil War, but the elaborate gardens with their centerpiece "butterfly lakes" designed by John Middleton have survived. (See Middleton...

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