Learn more about some of South Carolina's symbols in these videos!
Want to learn more about South Carolina? You can view the State Symbols & Emblems by visiting the South Carolina State House Student Connection website. This area of the website includes, Seals, Flags, Emblems, Plants & Edibles, Dances, Music & Poets, Gems, Rocks, Gardens & Fossils, Animals & Other Living Things, Museums & Honored Sites, Language & Arts, Colors & Textiles. Also available are South Carolina's State Beverage, Flower, Fruit, Grass, Hospitality Beverage, Picnic Cuisine, Snack, Tree, Vegetable, and Wildflower.
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“L” is for Loggerhead Turtle. State Reptile. The loggerhead turtle, a threatened species, is one of the world’s eight living species of turtles and evolved some sixty-five million to seventy million...
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The State House, 1790s. The act which established Columbia as the capital of South Carolina in 1786 included instructions that the funds gained from selling lots in the town were to be used to...
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The Carolina Parrot, drawn and engraved by John James Audubon, is now extinct. Courtesy of the Thomas Cooper Library, Rare Books and Special Collections, University of South Carolina.
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The Yellow Jessamine is the official State Flower of South Carolina, and the Carolina Wren, the State Bird. Recognition of the wren was unofficial until 1948, when the legislature passed an act...
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The three flags of the South Carolina State House at half-mast after the "Challenger" space shuttle explosion. Taken January 29, 1986. Courtesy of "The State" newspaper.
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The present South Carolina State Flag, adopted in 1861. Courtesy of Fort Moultrie National Park.
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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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This stamp commemorated the 200th anniversary of South Carolina's ratification of the United States Constitution.
