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.

Winthrop Industrial College | History of SC Slide Collection

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Winthrop Industrial College | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 47

Winthrop Industrial College, photographed May 12, 1894, was the industrial half of the Winthrop Normal and Industrial School constructed in Rock Hill. Courtesy of the South Caroliniana Library.

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Photograph of a Winthrop College Classroom | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 46

This 1974 photograph of a Winthrop College classroom illustrates many of the changes in higher education that occurred in South Carolina in the late 1960s. The College had become co-educational, and...

Class at Winthrop in 1950's | History of SC Slide Collection

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Class at Winthrop in 1950's | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 45

In the 1950s, Winthrop was still a college for white women, with rules regarding dress and class attendance. These attentive students taking notes in a large classroom are a remarkable contrast to...

Winthrop Biology Student | History of SC Slide Collection

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Winthrop Biology Student | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 44

A Winthrop biology student in the early 1950s. Courtesy of the Winthrop University Archives.

Construction of the Main Building of Winthrop College | History of SC Slide Collection

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Construction of the Main Building of Winthrop College | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 43

Construction of the Main Building of Winthrop College, also known as Tillman Hall, 1894. The Winthrop Training School was first opened in 1886 in a renovated stable and former chapel of the Columbia...

Aerial view of the University of South Carolina | History of SC Slide Collection

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Aerial view of the University of South Carolina | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 42

Aerial view of the University of South Carolina horseshoe in 1948. Women had been admitted to the college in 1895, and in 1906 it once again became a University. After lean years during the Tillmanite...

University Of South Carolina During The Civil War | History of SC Slide Collection

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University Of South Carolina During The Civil War | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 41

This detail of a large lithographic map of Columbia published in 1872 shows the campus of the University of South Carolina as it appeared after the Civil War. The Confederate government had taken...

Horseshoe of South Carolina College | History of SC Slide Collection

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Horseshoe of South Carolina College | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 40

This colored lithograph portrays the horseshoe of South Carolina College as it appeared in 1853, a half century after its founding. An act to establish the College was passed in December of 1801, but...

Newberry College | History of SC Slide Collection

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Newberry College | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 39

Newberry College, pictured in this engraving as it appeared around 1860, was one of a number of denominational colleges founded in the state just before the Civil War. Chartered in 1856 as a Lutheran...

Limestone College | History of SC Slide Collection

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Limestone College | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 38

Limestone College women stroll in front of the college's main building in Gaffney; the skirt styles, blue jeans, and car date this photograph as sometime in the early 1950s. Their attire is a far cry...

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