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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Fort Jackson celebrates its one hundred year anniversary. Part one of this special chronicles Fort Jackson’s history, and how it evolved over time, from a camp, to a permanent U.S. Army installation.
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Fort Jackson is more than just a base for training Army recruits. It is a symbol representing everything which makes America great. Fort Jackson also plays important roles outside of military...
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Fort Jackson is known to be the place where the “modern” drill sergeant began. This segment elaborates on the role of the drill sergeant, what they do, and how the program has evolved since it first...
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Completed by 1713, The Powder Magazine is the oldest governmental building in South Carolina. This facility was used as an arsenal from 1713 - 1748 to defend the colony from the Spanish, French...
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The Fairfield County Courthouse, built in 1823 from a design by Robert Mills, still stands, and was recently restored. Fairfield became a county in 1785. Courtesy of the Fairfield County Museum.
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This aerial view of downtown Sumter, taken around 1930, shows clearly the City Hall and the skyscraper Dixie Life building, built in 1911. Courtesy of the Sumter County Museum Archives.
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Main Street of Sumter, around 1910. The straggling village, first called Sumterville after the Revolutionary War General Thomas Sumter (see Thomas Sumter), was selected in 1798 to be the courthouse...
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Main Street of Summerville, July 1906. Created by early planters as a refuge from the heat and disease of coastal plantations, Summerville was one of a number of early resorts built in the belt of...
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The town of St. Matthews predates by more than a century and a half the 1908 formation of Calhoun County, of which it is now the county seat. Originally a trading post on the Cherokee Path, the town...
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Morgan Square, Spartanburg, as it appeared in 1939. Alfred T. Willis, photographer. Courtesy of the South Caroliniana Library.
