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

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The Three Rivers | RiverVenture
After floating through the hilly Piedmont, you arrive at the Sandhills of South Carolina. Between 55 and 100 million years ago the sea level was higher and the coast was farther inland. Marine fossils...
Beaufort County - Dafauskie Island

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Beaufort County - Dafauskie Island
By the 1940s and 1950s, outside competition had caused many to leave Dafauskie island and search for jobs elsewhere, leaving the population in 1980 at less than seventy-five people. Because of its...
Beaufort County - Michael C. Riley School

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Beaufort County - Michael C. Riley School
This is the site of two schools that served the black community of southern Beaufort County for most of the twentieth century. Bluffton Graded School, a small frame building constructed about 1900...
Beaufort County - The Green

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Beaufort County - The Green
The Green has long served as a meeting place and celebration site for St. Helena Island's African American residents. Such activities as Emancipation Day, celebrating the adoption of the Emancipation...
Beaufort County | Mather School

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Beaufort County | Mather School
Shortly after the Civil War, Rachel Crane Mather of Boston founded Mather School in Beaufort. In 1882 the Woman's American Baptist Home Mission Society assumed support of the venture, operating it as...
Berkeley County - Dixie Training School

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Berkeley County - Dixie Training School
The first public school for blacks in Moncks Corner was founded in 1880. Classes were held in local churches until the first school was built in 1900. The three-room school built here 1918-1920 at a...
Georgetown County - Howard School

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Georgetown County - Howard School
Land was purchased January 1, 1866 as a site for the Georgetown Colored Academy. The Academy stood on this land until 1908. By 1908 the old building had been torn down and a new school built. At that...
Georgetown County - Joseph H. Rainey House

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Georgetown County - Joseph H. Rainey House
Joseph H. Rainey served in the South Carolina Senate (1868-1870), and in 1870, he became the first African American to serve in the United States House of Representatives. He was elected to four...
Georgetown County - Fannie Carolina House

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Georgetown County - Fannie Carolina House
This residence, located in the Georgetown Historic District, was the home of Mrs. Fannie Carolina, Jonathan A. Baxter House founder and owner of the Fan-O-Lin Beauty School. The Beauty School was one...