This section features well-known places, as well as maps and symbols of South Carolina.
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A highway map of South Carolina, published by the state Highway Department in 1939, before the building of the multi-lane limited access interstate highways, shows the principal routes that connected...
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A satellite image of the east coast of the United States, showing South Carolina in outline. From NASA.
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This stamp commemorated the 200th anniversary of South Carolina's ratification of the United States Constitution.
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The Palmetto Monument, erected in honor of the Palmetto Regiment's heroic actions in the Mexican War, stands outside the South Carolina State House. Courtesy of the Howard G. Woody Postcard Collection...
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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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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 Palmetto Guard flag, flown over Fort Moultrie during the War of 1812. Courtesy of the Fort Sumter National Monument.
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The present South Carolina State Flag, adopted in 1861. Courtesy of Fort Moultrie National Park.
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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 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...