South Carolina

Greetings,

On to South Carolina...

and the home of some of the best outlet malls along Interstate 85...

Campbell's Covered Bridge built in 1909, is the only remaining covered bridge in South Carolina. Off Hwy 14 near Gowensville.
 

The salamander was given the honor of official state amphibian.
 

The walls of the American fort on Sullivan Island, in Charleston Harbor, were made of spongy Palmetto logs. This was helpful in protecting the fort because the British cannonballs bounced off the logs.
 

The City of Myrtle Beach is in the center of the Grand Strand, a 60-mile crescent of beach on the South Carolina coast.
 

South Carolina entered the Union on May 23, 1788 and became the 8th state.
 

The state dance of South Carolina is the Shag!
 

The first battle of the Civil War took place at Fort Sumter.
 

South Carolina is the nation's leading peach producer and shipper east of the Mississippi River.
 

Sumter has the largest Gingko farm in the world.
 

The Stumphouse Mountain Tunnel was started in 1856 by a railroad company and is bored for more than a mile into the granite heart of fabled Stumphouse Mountain.
 

Tyler Brothers Work Shoe and Boot Company in Wagener produces 8 major brands of OSHA approved safety footwear, including such famous brands as Redwing, Georgia, Northlake, and Wolverine.
 

The first boll weevil found in South Carolina is on display at the Pendleton District Agricultural Museum.

The Lake City tobacco market was established in 1898, and has grown to become one of the two largest markets in South Carolina        today.
 

Sweetgrass basket making has been a part of the Mount Pleasant community for more than 300 years. Basket making is a traditional art form that has been passed on from generation to generation.
 

Bomb Island on Lake Murray each spring and summer is the home of a very unusual event. Each year thousands of Purple Martins        return to this island to roost for the summer. The island has been declared a bird sanctuary and it is quite a sight to watch these birds return to Bomb Island each day around sunset.
 

In February 1852 William Burkhalter Dorn discovered the second richest vein of gold in SC history on the site of the present town of McCormick.
 

The introduction of tobacco in 1894 rocketed Mullins into the Tobacco Capital of South Carolina. As many as 200 tobacco barns sprang up throughout the community. Warehouses were also constructed and the first tobacco sale took place on August 28, 1895.
 

Housed in a 100-year-old freight depot, the Cowpens museum is a showplace for relics belonging to the crew of the USS Cowpens, a famous World War II aircraft carrier.
 

On Nov 2, 1954 Strom Thurmond became the first US senator elected by write-in vote. 

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