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South Carolina from A to Z
Historian and author Walter Edgar mines the riches of the South Carolina Encyclopedia to bring you South Carolina from A to Z. South Carolina from A to Z is a production of South Carolina Public Radio in partnership with the University of South Carolina Press and SC Humanities.
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South Carolina from A to Z“S” is for South Carolina State Ports Authority
“S” is for South Carolina State Ports Authority. The South Carolina State Ports Authority is a state owned enterprise established by the General Assembly in…
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“S” is for South Carolina State Museum
“S” is for South Carolina State Museum. South Carolina's multidisciplinary State Museum opened in 1988.
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“S” is for South Carolina Railroad
“S” is for South Carolina Railroad. In the early nineteenth century, Charleston sought to bolster its economy by attempting to attract trade from the west.
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“S” is for South Carolina Public Service Authority
“S” is for South Carolina Public Service Authority. The South Carolina Public Service Authority (better known as Santee Cooper) was established by the General…
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“S” is for South Carolina-North Carolina border
“S” is for South Carolina-North Carolina border. In 1735 the two colonies appointed a joint boundary commission that agreed the boundary should begin at a…
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“S” is for South Carolina National Heritage Corridor
“S” is for South Carolina National Heritage Corridor. The South Carolina National Heritage Corridor is a grassroots-led heritage tourism initiative that brings…
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“S “is for South Carolina Medical Association
“S “is for South Carolina Medical Association. The South Carolina Medical Association (SCMA) was founded in 1848 in an effort to organize physicians from…
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P” is for Preservation Society of Charleston
“P” is for Preservation Society of Charleston. Founded in 1920, the Preservation Society of Charleston is the oldest community-based historic preservation…
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P” is for Presbyterian College
“P” is for Presbyterian College. A liberal arts college affiliated with the Presbyterian Church (USA) and located in Clinton, South Carolina, Presbyterian…
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“P” is for Pratt, Nathaniel Alpheus (1834-1906)
“P” is for Pratt, Nathaniel Alpheus (1834-1906). Chemist, engineer, inventor.
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“P” is for Praise houses
“P” is for Praise houses. Praise houses (sometimes called “prayer houses”) functioned on antebellum South Carolina plantations as both the epitome of slave…
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"M “is for Mullis, Kary Banks (1944-2011)
"M “is for Mullis, Kary Banks (1944-2011). Scientist.
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“M” is for Mullins
“M” is for Mullins (Marion County; 2020 population 4,026).
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“C” is for Coogler, John Gordon (1865-1901)
“C” is for Coogler, John Gordon (1865-1901). Poet.
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“C” is for Conway
“C” is for Conway (Horry County; 2020 population 24,849). Conway, originally named Kingston Village, was established on a bluff of the Waccamaw River about…
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“C” is for Converse College
“C” is for Converse College. Converse College was founded in 1889 by a group of Spartanburg leaders to provide for the education of young middle-class women.
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B” is for Brewton, Miles (1731-1775)
“B” is for Brewton, Miles (1731-1775). Merchant, legislator.
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“B” is for Brawley, Edward McKnight (1851-1923)
“B” is for Brawley, Edward McKnight (1851-1923). Missionary, educator.
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“S” is for South Carolina Law Enforcement Division
The South Carolina Law Enforcement Division (or SLED) is a highly visible investigative agency with origins that date back to 1947 when Governor Strom Thurmond…
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“S” is for South Carolina Land Commission
In 1869 the General Assembly established the South Carolina Land Commission to purchase land for sale in plots of between twenty-five and one hundred acres…
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“S” is for South Carolina Jockey Club
“S” is for South Carolina Jockey Club. The earliest record of horse racing in South Carolina is February 1734.
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“S” is for South Carolina Manufacturers Alliance
“S” is for South Carolina Manufacturers Alliance. The South Carolina Manufacturers Alliance (SCMA), a powerful networking, information, and lobbying group for…
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“S” is for South Carolina Lunatic Asylum / State Hospital
“S” is for South Carolina Lunatic Asylum / State Hospital. The South Carolina Lunatic Asylum, located on Bull Street in Columbia, was established by the…
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“W” is for Wofford College
“W” is for Wofford College. A four year liberal arts college in Spartanburg, Wofford College was founded with a $100,000 bequest from Methodist minister and…
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“W” is for WIS Radio and Television
“W” is for WIS Radio and Television. WIS Radio and Television stations in Colombia played an influential role in the development of South Carolina's media as a…
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“W” is for Winthrop University
“W” is for Winthrop University. Located in Rock Hill, Winthrop University traces its roots to1886 when Winthrop Training School, a teacher-training school for…
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“S” is for Sirrine, Joseph Emory (1872-1947)
“S” is for Sirrine, Joseph Emory (1872-1947). Architect, engineer.
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“S” is for Sinclair, Bennie Lee (1939-2000)
“S” is for Sinclair, Bennie Lee (1939-2000). Novelist, poet.
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“G” for Gullah
“G” for Gullah. The term “Gullah,”or “Geechee,” describes a unique group of African Americans descended from enslaved Africans who settled in the Sea Islands…
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“C” is for Converse, Dexter Edgar (1829-1899)
“C” is for Converse, Dexter Edgar (1829-1899). Industrialist.
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“C” is for Continental Regiments
“C” is for Continental Regiments. In the aftermath of the battles at Lexington and Concord, the Continental Congress passed resolutions that created the…
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“C” is for Conroy, Donald Patrick (1945-2016)
“C” is for Conroy, Donald Patrick (1945-2016). Author.
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“C” is for Conner, Henry Workman (1797-1861)
“C” is for Conner, Henry Workman (1797-1861). Merchant, banker.
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“B” is for Brawley, Benjamin Griffith (1882-1939)
“B” is for Brawley, Benjamin Griffith (1882-1939). Educator, author, editor, clergyman.
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“B” is for Brown, Morris (1770-1849)
“B” is for Brown, Morris (1770-1849). Clergyman. In 1828 Morris Brown was elected as the second Bishop of the growing African Methodist Episcopal Church.
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“S” is for Southern 500
“S” is for Southern 500. The Southern 500 at Darlington Raceway was the oldest and one of the most storied races on the
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“S” is for South Carolina Highway Patrol
“S” is for South Carolina Highway Patrol. Operating under the South Carolina Department of Safety, the South Carolina Highway Patrol is a law enforcement…
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P” is for Post and Courier
“P” is for Post and Courier. Published in Charleston, the Post and Courier is the oldest daily newspaper in South Carolina.
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“M” is for Moxon, Barbara Wischan (1921-2011)
“M” is for Moxon, Barbara Wischan (1921-2011). Political activist.
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“G” is for Guerard, Benjamin (died 1788)
“G” is for Guerard, Benjamin (died 1788). Governor.
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“C” is for Congaree River
“C” is for Congaree River. At the fall line in Columbia the Broad and Saluda Rivers form the Congaree River.
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“C” is for Compromise of 1808
“C” is for Compromise of 1808. Under the constitutions of 1778 and 1790, the House of Representatives was apportioned to benefit the lowcountry while the…
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“C” is for Commons House of Assembly (1670 to 1776)
“C” is for Commons House of Assembly (1670 to 1776). The dominant political institution in colonial South Carolina was the Commons House of Assembly.
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“B” is for Bratton, William (ca. 1742-1815)
“B” is for Bratton, William (ca. 1742-1815). Soldier, legislator.
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“B” is for Bratton, John (1831-1898)
“B” is for Bratton, John (1831-1898). Soldier, congressman.
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“S” is for South Carolina Public Radio
South Carolina Public Radio began broadcasting in 1972 as the South Carolina Educational Television Radio Network.
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“S” is for South Carolina Educational Television Network
“S” is for South Carolina Educational Television Network. The South Carolina Educational Television Network (SCETV) is a state agency providing educational…
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“P” is for Port Royal Naval Station
“P” is for Port Royal Naval Station. The conquest of the Sea Islands by the United States Navy in November 1861 was the beginning of more than a century of US…
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“M” is for Mulberry Plantation (Berkeley County)
“M” is for Mulberry Plantation (Berkeley County). Completed in 1714 Mulberry is one of the most distinctive eighteenth-century houses in America.
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“G” is for Grosvenor, Vertamae (1938-2016)
“G” is for Grosvenor, Vertamae (1938-2016). Writer, culinary anthropologist. A woman with varied interests Grosvenor traveled abroad and became interested in…
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“C” is for Congaree National Park
“C” is for Congaree National Park. South Carolina's only National Park, Congaree is located on 22,000 acres in the Congaree River floodplain of lower Richland…
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“C” is for Commission of Indian Trade
“C” is for Commission of Indian Trade. In 1707 the Commons House of Assembly created the Board of Indian Commissioners to regulate the traffic between Indian…
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“C” is for Coming, Affra Harleston (circa 1651-1698)
“C” is for Coming, Affra Harleston (circa 1651-1698). Pioneer of early South Carolina. The Harleston family's property had been so ravaged by the English Civil…
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“C” is for Columbia Theological Seminary
“C” is for Columbia Theological Seminary. An institution of the Presbyterian Church (USA), the seminary was founded in 1828 in Georgia, and moved to Columbia…
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“C” is for Columbia Museum of Art
“C” is for Columbia Museum of Art. The Columbia Museum of Art was established in 1950 as an art, history, and science museum and included the Gibbs planetarium.
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“C” is for Columbia Mills
“C” is for Columbia Mills. The first textile mill in the world to be powered exclusively by electricity, the Columbia Mills Company was chartered in 1893 with…
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“C” is for Columbia Metropolitan Airport
“C” is for Columbia Metropolitan Airport. The airport, which serves Midlands South Carolina, is located in Lexington County.
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“C” is for Columbia International University
“C” is for Columbia International University. Founded as the Southern Bible Institute in 1921, the school's name was changed in 1923 to the Columbia Bible…
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“B” is for Brainerd Institute
“B” is for Brainerd Institute. A historically Black primary, secondary, and normal school located in Chester, Brainerd Institute was one of the first…
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“B” is for Bragg, Laura (1881-1978)
“B” is for Bragg, Laura (1881-1978). Museum administrator, educator.