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Middleton emerged as a leader within the extreme faction of the local “patriot party” by organizing and leading raids on the royal armories, and more.

His most important contribution to the Revolution began in July 1774, when he was elected to the First Continental Congress.

During his later years Middleton, a major slaveholder, was obligated to manage the rice plantations that provided the family’s income.

Mignot was one of the first tenants of the Tenth Street Studio Building, the earliest American facility designed specifically for artists.

Migrant labor in South Carolina involves farmwork done by individuals whose principal employment is seasonal agriculture and who travel and live in temporary housing.

Milburn was one of the New South’s most successful and prolific architects. He worked throughout the Southeast and designed more than 250 major buildings, primarily railroad stations and public, institutional, and commercial structures.

The Brewton House is a masterwork of early American architecture and reflects the sophisticated tastes of Charleston’s merchants on the eve of the Revolution.

After secession, Miles was selected as a representative in the provisional and regular Confederate congress.

Military education has long been popular in the American South, and South Carolina has been a leader for this type of instruction.

photograph of military encampment on grounds of Colleton County Courthouse, Walterboro, S.C. showing men in uniform setting up tents.

When the colonists set foot in South Carolina in 1670, they brought with them the traditional English concept of a militia, the idea that every citizen had a duty to assist in the defense of the community.

The mill school was a reflection of the individual community and was run with little interference from the state until the advent of the Progressive Era.

Villages often followed a simple pattern, with workers housed in rows of identical single-family houses or, in some cases, duplexes, while higher-ranking managers lived in larger houses closer to the mills in the community centers.