The state of South Carolina is made up of 46 counties. Learn more about each county by selecting a county below to explore people, places and events.
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The Columbia retail district, Main Street, around 1908. Courtesy of the South Caroliniana Library.
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A truck coming off of the new assembly line at the Mack Truck plant in Fairfield County. Photo by Doug Gilmore, August 1,1988. Courtesy of "The State" newspaper.
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Harry Melton, an investigator of the South Carolina Alcohol Tax Unit stationed in Charleston, photographed the results of a raid on a moonshine still in the marshlands two and a half miles north of...
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The Carolina Eastman plant in St. Matthews is a modern chemical industry that manufactures synthetic fibers. Official company photograph, 1983. Courtesy of "The State" newspaper.
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The interior of the Coca Cola Bottling Company of Sumter in the 1930s. Photograph from the Lecoq Studios. Courtesy of the Sumter County Museum Archives.
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A granite quarry in operation in Fairfield County, near Winnsboro, in the 1930s. From the files of the Works Progress Administration. Courtesy of the South Caroliniana Library.
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The production line at Darlington Brick Company in Society Hill, around 1912. Courtesy of the Darlington County Historical Commission.
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"A Birds-eye View of the Rock Hill Buggy Company." The brochure for which this engraving was drawn boasted around 1900: "This company was started here in 1886 with a little hand power plant and about...
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The Sumter Telephone Company was established in the town of Sumter in 1896 by C.T. Mason, and by 1900 it boasted in its advertising that it was "one of the largest and best equipped factories in the...
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The Winburn Photo Studio, located on South Main Street in Sumter around 1900, illustrates the importance of this form of business in many South Carolina communities. The Studio advertises "Photographs...
