S.C. History

South Carolina's historical events, people and places. Content has been curated to meet South Carolina Social Studies Standards.

Life on Morris Island | Walter Edgar's Journal

Life on Morris Island | Walter Edgar's Journal

Episode 4

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In this section, Dr. Wise discusses the grueling and harsh living conditions on Morris Island, for both Federal and Confederate forces.

Life In Fort Sumter | Walter Edgar's Journal

Life In Fort Sumter | Walter Edgar's Journal

Episode 6

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Fort Sumter, now heavily damaged from years of attacks by the Union fleet, is a tough place for Confederate forces to live: living in trenches over-run with rats and roaches, while under constant...

Abandonment Of Fort Wagner | Walter Edgar's Journal

Abandonment Of Fort Wagner | Walter Edgar's Journal

Episode 5

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Grades: 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

September 6, 1863: The final assault on Battery Wagner by Federal forces causes the Confederate troops to abandon the fort. With Battery Wagner now empty, the Union troops can now turn their guns on...

Interior of a Tobacco Grading Room | History of SC Slide Collection

Interior of a Tobacco Grading Room | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 6

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Interior of a tobacco grading room in a Darlington tobacco factory around 1890. Photo by August Kohn. Courtesy of the South Caroliniana Library.

Sorting and Stringing Tobacco | History of SC Slide Collection

Sorting and Stringing Tobacco | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 5

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African-American and white boys work together stringing tobacco under the shade of the shed, near Marion. Sorting and stringing tobacco onto long poles was a preliminary step to curing it. Dorothea...

U.S. Goodyear Farm, Bishopville, S.C. | History of SC Slide Collection

U.S. Goodyear Farm, Bishopville, S.C. | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 4

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U.S. Goodyear farm in Bishopville, showing a combination tobacco curing and sweet potato curing storage barn. Photograph by E.C. Hunter in October 1939. Courtesy of the Clemson University Libraries.

Tobacco Being Hung on Racks | History of SC Slide Collection

Tobacco Being Hung on Racks | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 3

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In this somewhat unusual photo around 1900, harvested tobacco is being hung on racks immediately in the field before being taken by mule-drawn wagon to the tobacco barn, where the stringing process...

Tobacco Farmer Painting by Richard Lofton | History of SC Slide Collection

Tobacco Farmer Painting by Richard Lofton | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 2

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Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

Artist Richard Lofton painted this tobacco farmer during the 1930s. Courtesy of the Collection of the Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, South Carolina. Richard Morrison Lofton, American, 1908-1966....

Tobacco and Industry Mural by Lee Gatch | History of SC Slide Collection

Tobacco and Industry Mural by Lee Gatch | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 1

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This sketch was a preliminary study for the Mullins Post Office mural painted by Lee Gatch in 1940, titled "Tobacco and Industry." Courtesy of the South Carolina State Museum.

Charleston Cotton Exchange | History of SC Slide Collection

Charleston Cotton Exchange | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 11

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As important as the growing of cotton was its marketing, and in this the Cotton Exchange played a powerful role in the local economy. All of the members of the Charleston Cotton Exchange were...