S.C. History

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

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Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8

A dramatic sequence is included in this wraparound. It is an analogy to the eight Lords Proprietors receiving the grant of Carolina from King Charles II. Five people gather for lunch to discuss a...
S.C. Revolutionary War Leaders | Palmetto Special
S.C. Revolutionary War Leaders | Palmetto Special

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Grades: 4 8

MARION, SUMTER, PICKENS Thomas Sumter, the "Gamecock," Francis Marion, the "Swamp Fox," and Andrew Pickens, the "Wizard Owl" are perhaps the best known of South Carolina's Revolutionary War leaders...
Francis Marion, the Swamp Fox | Palmetto Special
Francis Marion, the Swamp Fox | Palmetto Special

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Grades: 4 8

Francis Marion was involved in a number of skirmishes that caught the enemy off guard, forced them to reckon with him, thus allowing other patriot forces to conduct their missions with greater success...
Studying Local History | Palmetto Special
Studying Local History | Palmetto Special

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Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8

The opening and closing wraparounds are in front of the restored "Big Apple." Originally a synagogue, the building was sold in the 1930's to a black man and converted to a night club. Here originated...
Soil Bank | Palmetto Special
Soil Bank | Palmetto Special

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Grades: 6 7 8

This lesson presents a dramatic episode of a fictional family living near Batesurg in Lexington County in the mid 1950's. They are having economic difficulties and make a decision to place some of...
Thomas Sumter, The Gamecock | Palmetto Special
Thomas Sumter, The Gamecock | Palmetto Special

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Grades: 4 8

At the battle of Fishdam Ford on the Broad River, Thomas Sumter had an opportunity to get personal revenge on a man who hours earlier had attempted to kill him. This segment depicts the events that...
Andrew Pickens, the Wizard Owl | Palmetto Special
Andrew Pickens, the Wizard Owl | Palmetto Special

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Grades: 4 8

The television lesson includes a segment on each man designed to give an insight into his character. Andrew Pickens had been parolled by the British in Charleston when that city was captured in May...
Industrialization | Palmetto Special
Industrialization | Palmetto Special

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Grades: 5 8

The lesson begins at the Wilson Tennis Ball factory in Fountain Inn. Here we see a montage in the process of making tennis balls The host then mentions that there are many other products made in the...
Charlesfort | Palmetto Special
Charlesfort | Palmetto Special

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Grades: 4 8

This episode goes from Columbia to Parris Island in Beaufort County. Parris Island today is the home of a large Marine Corps training base. There is a monument there, similar in the design to one...
Jehu Jones | Palmetto Special
Jehu Jones | Palmetto Special

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Grades: 3 4 5

The lesson contains scenes with two of Jones' more prominent guests, portrait painter, Samuel F B Morse (later to gain fame with the telegraph and the Morse code) and famed British actor, William Kean...