The Economic Landscape

1975 TO PRESENT. South Carolinians, businesses and organizations help define and establish business and economic practices in the late 20th century and early 21st century.
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Last Auction: Migrant Workers | Carolina Stories 15
Last Auction: Migrant Workers | Carolina Stories
Episode 15

Video

Grades: 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

Migrant workers continue to thrive in Mullins. When you go to the grocery store, do you think about who planted, cultivated and picked all the fruits and vegetables on the produce racks? Chances are...
Last Auction: Introduction | Carolina Stories 1
Last Auction: Introduction | Carolina Stories
Episode 1

Video

Grades: 8

The Last Auction: Part 1, Introduction Tobacco has a long and important history in South Carolina's Pee Dee region. During the 1890s, South Carolina tobacco production went from 200,000 pounds per...
Last Auction: Anderson Center | Carolina Stories 18
Last Auction: Anderson Center | Carolina Stories
Episode 18

Video

Mullins opens the Anderson Center and hopes for a revitalization in the town. Marion County residents can surf the Net or earn credits toward a degree at the new Technology Center of the Florence...
Last Auction: Mullins Then | Carolina Stories 3
Last Auction: Mullins Then | Carolina Stories
Episode 3

Video

Grades: 8

The video, "Mullins Then" provides a look at Mullins in its best times. The Mullins community began when farming families settled here in the 1600s, The City of Mullins was formally established in...
Last Auction: Replacing Tobacco | Carolina Stories 5
Last Auction: Replacing Tobacco | Carolina Stories
Episode 5

Video

Grades: 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

A look at the struggle to find crops to replace tobacco. Some farmers have substituted cattle, corn, beans and other vegetables for tobacco, but the profits are not what they were with tobacco.