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The Palmetto Guard flag, flown over Fort Moultrie during the War of 1812. Courtesy of the Fort Sumter National Monument.
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Workman vacuuming the State Seal in a carpet in the Senate. Photo by Maxie Roberts, January 11, 1986. Courtesy of "The State" newspaper.
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The South Carolina State Seal. The shield on the left displays the palmetto tree, adopted as a state symbol after the palmetto logs (of which the fort on Sullivan's Island was built) successfully...
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The Palmetto Monument, erected in honor of the Palmetto Regiment's heroic actions in the Mexican War, stands outside the South Carolina State House. Courtesy of the Howard G. Woody Postcard Collection...
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This stamp commemorated the 200th anniversary of South Carolina's ratification of the United States Constitution.
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A satellite image of the east coast of the United States, showing South Carolina in outline. From NASA.
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A highway map of South Carolina, published by the state Highway Department in 1939, before the building of the multi-lane limited access interstate highways, shows the principal routes that connected...
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This is the Georgetown section of a map of South Carolina, published by the noted mapmaker Henry Mouzon in 1783. From the Kendall Collection. Courtesy of the South Caroliniana Library.
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"A new map of Carolina" was published by John Thornton, Robert Morden, and Philip Lea in 1685. Courtesy of the South Carolina Department of Archives and History.
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"A Map of Eastern North America: From Florida to Chesapeake Bay" was drawn by John White after his 1585 expedition to the coast of North Carolina. Although White's maps of the Chesapeake, which he...