State and National Parks

Learn about the state and national parks in South Carolina. Many of the parks were built as a result of the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) which was a New Deal Federal program. 

PHOTO CREDIT: CCC workers constructing a road, 1933. U.S. National Archives and Records Administration.

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PHOTO CREDIT: CCC workers constructing a road, 1933. U.S. National Archives and Records Administration.

Roots in the River, Part 8 | Carolina Stories
Episode 8

Video

The Congaree Land Trust helps to preserve the land surrounding the park and its neighboring rivers, the Congaree, the Wateree and the Santee Within this huge river system known as the Cowasee Basin...
Roots in the River, Part 3 | Carolina Stories
Episode 3

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The Congaree land was leased to a well-known nature writer, Harry Hampton, and his brothers for a hunt club. But Harry, who served as associate editor of The State Newspaper for many years, was more...
Sandhills State Park | A Natural State
Episode 7

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Nancy travels from her home in the Upstate to Sandhills State Park in Patrick to collect needles for her baskets. Dried needles are plentiful due to controlled burning of the park's long leaf pine...