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"S" is for Secession Crisis of 1850-51.
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“L” is for Longshoreman’s Protective Union Association. Chartered in 1869, the Longshoreman’s Protective Union Association [LPUA] established the legacy of a strong union presence, comprised almost...
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“B” is for the “Black” Seventh District. After the 1880 census, South Carolina was awarded an additional two seats in the U.S. House of Representatives. Redistricting gave the state’s white Democrats...
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Around the world, people wear cotton clothing, and they have done so for thousands of years. However, cotton did not gain popularity in England until the 15th century, due to the prominence of wool in...
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As a key figure in the American Revolution, General Francis Marion, best known as the “Swamp Fox,” surprise attacked the British forces in South Carolina, destroying communication and supply lines...
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Far too many of South Carolina's historic buildings have met the fate of Peterkin Plantation of St. Matthews, which burned to the ground in a fire photographed by Frances Benjamin Johnston around 1910...
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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...
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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.
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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...
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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...