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“M” is for McSweeney, Miles Benjamin [1855-1909]. Governor. After serving as co-publisher of a newspaper in Ninety Six, McSweeney moved to Hampton and founded the Hampton County Guardian. He became an...
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“F” is for Furman University. In 1825, the South Carolina Baptist Convention elected a board to organize an institution to train young men for the ministry. The school opened in Edgefield in 1827 and...
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“H” is for Hines, John Elbridge [1910-1997]. Clergyman. Civil Rights advocate. A native of Seneca, Hines graduated from Sewanee and Virginia Theological Seminary. After being ordained an Episcopal...
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“H” is for Hilton Head Island [Beaufort County; population 33,862]. Located in the southeast corner of the state, Hilton Head Island is the largest of the islands that flank South Carolina’s Atlantic...
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Around the world, people wear cotton clothing, and they have done so for thousands of years. However, cotton did not gain popularity in England until the 15th century, due to the prominence of wool in...
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As a key figure in the American Revolution, General Francis Marion, best known as the “Swamp Fox,” surprise attacked the British forces in South Carolina, destroying communication and supply lines...
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Far too many of South Carolina's historic buildings have met the fate of Peterkin Plantation of St. Matthews, which burned to the ground in a fire photographed by Frances Benjamin Johnston around 1910...
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The interior of a mill village home in Spartanburg around 1920 is a marked contrast to the contents and design of the Victorian interiors of the wealthy (see Interior Décor Of The Victorian Era, Front...
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An interior view of an unidentified Columbia living room, with an upright piano in the right corner, around 1900. Courtesy of the South Carolina State Museum.
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Blondell Malone, in what she describes as the "hall" of her Gervais Street home, around 1910. The paintings on the wall were her own. (For examples of external decoration of the period, see images 30...