Find out about some of the places you can visit in different areas of our state...that are not all that far away! Enjoy your travels!
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Camden's Main Street, around 1910. Courtesy of the South Caroliniana Library.
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The Kershaw County Courthouse was designed by famed South Carolina architect Robert Mills and built in 1826. The original courthouse had Ionic columns; local citizens, who wanted a more "modern"...
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Pelicans nest in the Cape Romain Wildlife Refuge on Bulls Island in 1944. Photo by William Baldwin for the U.S. Biological Survey. Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration.
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In 1842, a branch of the South Carolina Railroad, which had originally been built between Charleston and Hamburg (near Augusta), was constructed to connect Charleston to Columbia. The point of...
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The county courthouse and Confederate monument in Bennettsville, county seat of Marlboro County, in a 1915 postcard view. Marlboro County has been an important agricultural center (first for the...
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Belton, in Anderson County, is noted for its unusual standpipe or water tower. Here, the standpipe can be seen in the background of the Belton Square, around 1909. The town, like many other South...
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The Beaufort waterfront in as it appeared in 1906. Courtesy of the South Caroliniana Library.
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Fire damage to Sherper's Wharf in Beaufort, 1907. Courtesy of the South Caroliniana Library.
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Downtown Beaufort in the 1860s. Courtesy of the South Caroliniana Library.
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Granite Street in Batesburg, around 1913. Batesburg and nearby Leesville, both in Lexington County, were named after the families on whose plantations they developed. After the 1890s, the railroads...
