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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 Old Exchange  | Ghosts & Legends I
Old Exchange | Ghosts & Legends I

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Old Exchange Building and Provost Dungeon, Charleston, S.C. Isaac Hayne was imprisoned there in 1781. He was a very popular businessman, well-off, whom they led through the streets of Charleston, by...
 Haunted Grave | Ghosts & Legends II
Haunted Grave | Ghosts & Legends II

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* Please note: This ghost story is not recommended for all audiences due to mature subject matter. The Old Stone Church was established in the 1780s by Andrew Pickens. In the cemetery, there is a...
 Hunter's Store | Ghosts & Legends II
Hunter's Store | Ghosts & Legends II

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The building that now houses the Pendleton District Commission was built in 1850. In 1870, the Hunter family bought it and opened the Hunter's Store, owned by the Hunter brothers. In the 1890s, there...
 Inn at Merridun | Ghosts & Legends II
Inn at Merridun | Ghosts & Legends II

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The house was built in 1855 by the mayor of Union. In about 1900, the house was named the Merridun. The house was bought in 1990, and the owners started working on it in 1992. They started seeing a...
 Stumphouse Tunnel | Ghosts & Legends II
Stumphouse Tunnel | Ghosts & Legends II

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​Stumphouse Tunnel was built in the 1850s in Walhalla, S.C. The tunnel was built to connect the railway between Charleston and Knoxville. The men who built the tunnel worked twelve hours a day, seven...
 Drunken Jack, The Pirate | Ghosts and Legends III
Drunken Jack, The Pirate | Ghosts and Legends III

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From Pawleys Island, S.C. During the golden age of piracy, there came an afternoon on which a pirate ship sailed into Murrell's Inlet to bury a treasure they would imbibe in that very night. By late...
 Gray Man | Ghosts & Legends III
Gray Man | Ghosts & Legends III

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From Pawleys Island, S.C. Plowden C.J. Weston went to England to be educated but returned to his beloved Pawleys Island, where he and his lovely English wife, Emily Esdaille Weston, built the Pelican...