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Lee State Park (S.C.) Stop 5 | NatureScene 5

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Lee State Park (S.C.) Stop 5 | NatureScene
Episode 5
The host visit an artesian well at this stop. There are many primitive plants that thrive near this source of water. Learn about muscadines and how they're formed. On this last stop the host see a...
Richard S. Roberts | History of SC Slide Collection

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Richard S. Roberts | History of SC Slide Collection
Episode 124
Richard S. Roberts (1880-1936), a talented photographer, left an enduring film record of Columbia's African-American middle class community during the 1920s and 1930s. This self portrait was taken in...
Colonel William Rhett | History of SC Slide Collection

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Colonel William Rhett | History of SC Slide Collection
Episode 123
Born in England, Colonel William Rhett (1666-1722) came to the Carolina colony in November 1694 as a captain of a merchant ship. In the impoverished Carolina colony, pirates, former seamen who had...
Robert Barnwell Rhett | History of SC Slide Collection

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Robert Barnwell Rhett | History of SC Slide Collection
Episode 122
Robert Barnwell Rhett (1800-1876) was born Robert Barnwell Smith in Beaufort, and changed his name legally by act of the South Carolina legislature in 1838. Elected to the state House of...
Alonzo J. Ransier | History of SC Slide Collection

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Alonzo J. Ransier | History of SC Slide Collection
Episode 121
Alonzo J. Ransier (1834-1882), born a free African-American in Charleston, was one of two African-American men in South Carolina to achieve the position of lieutenant governor. He held this office...
Dr. David Ramsey | History of SC Slide Collection

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Dr. David Ramsey | History of SC Slide Collection
Episode 120
Dr. David Ramsey (1749-1815) was a physician and historian. Born in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, Ramsey attended local schools, the College of New Jersey (now Princeton), and the College of...
James Reid Pringle | History of SC Slide Collection

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James Reid Pringle | History of SC Slide Collection
Episode 119
James Reid Pringle (1782-1840) was President of the South Carolina Senate from 1814-1818, and Collector of the Port of Charleston. During the Nullification Controversy, he was a Unionist. This...
Joel Robert Poinsett | History of SC Slide Collection

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Joel Robert Poinsett | History of SC Slide Collection
Episode 118
Joel Robert Poinsett (1779-1851) was the first American Minister to Mexico, serving from 1825-1830. As a result of that assignment, he introduced into the United States the poinsettia, a flower named...
Thomas Pinckney | History of SC Slide Collection

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Thomas Pinckney | History of SC Slide Collection
Episode 116
Born in Charleston, the third surviving child of Eliza Lucas and Charles Pinckney, the younger brother of Charles Cotesworth Pinckney (see Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, In His 6th Year, and Charles...