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Modjeska Monteith Simkins | History of SC Slide Collection

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Modjeska Monteith Simkins | History of SC Slide Collection
Episode 129
Modjeska Monteith Simkins (1899-1992) is one of the outstanding civil rights leaders in South Carolina. The oldest of eight children of a bricklayer, she sought education not only for herself, but for...
Hilla Sheriff | History of SC Slide Collection

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Hilla Sheriff | History of SC Slide Collection
Episode 128
Hilla Sheriff (1900-1988) was a leader in shaping public health policies in South Carolina. She graduated from the College of Charleston, and was one of only three women to receive a medical degree...
John R. Schorb | History of SC Slide Collection

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John R. Schorb | History of SC Slide Collection
Episode 127
John R. Schorb (1818-1908) was an early photographer in South Carolina, practicing first as a daguerreotypist, and later using wet and dry plate photographic techniques, in Winnsboro and Yorkville...
Eliza Rutledge | History of SC Slide Collection

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Eliza Rutledge | History of SC Slide Collection
Episode 126
Eliza Rutledge (1776-1842), the daughter of John Rutledge, was fifteen when she was painted by the distinguished American historical painter John Trumbull (1756-1843) in 1791. She later became Mrs...
Edward Rutledge | History of SC Slide Collection

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Edward Rutledge | History of SC Slide Collection
Episode 125
Son of an Irish immigrant doctor, Edward Rutledge (1749-1800) was born in Charleston where he received his early education. Later, he studied law at the Middle Temple in London, returning to South...
Lee State Park (S.C.) Stop 3 | NatureScene 3

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Lee State Park (S.C.) Stop 3 | NatureScene
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The hosts come across some very large mosquitoes. Mosquitoes love standing water. It's the female mosquito that takes blood from us. There are flowers that grow along this stop like sweetgum, red...
Lee State Park (S.C.) Stop 4 | NatureScene 4

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Lee State Park (S.C.) Stop 4 | NatureScene
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This stop is considered floodplain. The hosts makes note of how the river flowed into this area carrying sand and also the height of the water. Native Americans used places like the Lynches river to...
Lee State Park (S.C.) Stop 5 | NatureScene 5

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