S.C. History

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

Taylor Street School in Columbia | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 13

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The Taylor Street School in Columbia, around 1910. Courtesy of the South Caroliniana Library.

The Student Body of Winyah School | History SC Slide Collection

Episode 31

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The student body of Winyah School poses in front of the Winyah Indigo Society Hall, corner of Prince and Cannon Streets in Georgetown, on a warm spring day around 1900. The substantial profits made by...

Dargan's School in Darlington | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 11

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John J. Dargan was the principal and a teacher, and Gena Dargan a teacher, in Dargan's School in Darlington, photographed May 18, 1899.

Benedict College | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 10

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Founded in 1870 by the American Baptist Home Mission Society, Benedict College occupies a twenty-acre campus on Harden Street in Columbia, across Taylor Street from Allen University. As an important...

Main Building of Anderson College | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 9

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The main building of Anderson College. Founded as Johnson Female Seminary in 1848, the school was later adopted by the Saluda Baptist Association, which planned to begin a Baptist institution for...

Elementary School Class at Everett School | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 7

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An elementary school class at the Everett School in Winnsboro completes a class project in the 1950s. The Everett School was built in the Winnsboro Mills village in 1922. There had been a one-room...

The Folk and Lore of Maxcy College | Digital Traditions

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by Mary Glenn. Glenn is a business major in the South Carolina Honors College at USC. This paper was written for the Fall 2008 class "Folklife in America." The Honors College at the University of...

The Curse of the Black Pearl | Digital Traditions

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by Brittany Anderson. Anderson is a Theatre major in the South Carolina Honors College at USC. This review was written for the Spring 2012 class "Folklore and Film." If a person were to tell me that...

The Family Feast and Noodle-Making | Digital Traditions

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by Alison Salisbury. Salisbury is an English major in the South Carolina Honors College at USC. This paper was written for the Fall 2007 class "Folklife in America." Food is an integral part of my...

South Carolina Hash: By the Light of the Moon | Digital Traditions

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by Saddler Taylor, Chief Curator of Folklife & Fieldwork at McKissick Museum. “Southern barbecue is the closest thing we have in the U.S. to Europe’s wines or cheeses; drive a hundred miles and the...

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