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Story of the Civil War battle at Dingle’s Mill, south of Sumter, S.C.
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A brief look at Mepkin Abbey in Moncks Corner, S.C., former home of Henry Laurens, a member of the Continental Congress who later became its president. Mepkin Abbey was later owned by publisher Henry...
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Brief history of the Revolutionary War Battle of Camden, S.C. that occurred August 16, 1780.
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Daniel Decatur Emmitt, the New Yorker who penned the song "Dixie."
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Ghost story about the ghost of the lady who hitch-hikes rides with unsuspecting travelers on the bridge over the Wateree River in the swamps near Stateburg.
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Joseph P. Riley, Jr. was born in 1943 in Charleston, South Carolina. He attended The Citadel and the University of South Carolina School of Law.Riley served six years in the South Carolina House of...
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Your older brother or sister is trying to decide on a university or college. Your mom has found five colleges/universities she thinks will interest your sibling. She’s also found facts about each...
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On December 20,1860, the delegates of a special South Carolina state convention voted unanimously to secede from the Union. Secession had been brewing for more than a decade, as white South...