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Merchant, politician, planter. Smith was born in South Carolina in 1717, the eldest child of the planter and politician Thomas…

Banker, governor. Smith was born in North Carolina on January 22, 1861, the son of Joseph Smith. After attending local…

U.S. senator. Smith was born in Sumter District (later Lee County) on August 1, 1864, one of ten children born…

Writer, publisher, and Pulitzer Prize winner. Born in Ithaca, New York, in 1951, to William R. Smith, a hotel administrator,…

Legislator, educator, businesswoman. Smith, the daughter of Arthur Hugh Smith and Alice Beryl Whitley, was born in Washington, North Carolina,…

Governor. Born in England around 1648, Smith immigrated with his family to Carolina in 1683, likely as a member of…

U.S. senator. Born near the North Carolina border, Smith spent most of his life in York District. After studying with…

Lawyer, congressman, diplomat. Smith was born on October 2, 1758, the son of the prominent merchant Benjamin Smith and Anne…

Industrialist. Smyth was born on October 26, 1847, in Charleston, the son of the Reverend Thomas Smyth and Margaret M.…

Clergyman, author. Smyth was born on June 14, 1808, in Belfast, Ireland, the son of Samuel Smyth, a merchant, and…

(Florence County). Snow’s Island, in the southeast corner of Florence County, was the legendary campsite of the Revolutionary War general…

Philanthropist. Snowden was born in Charleston on September 10, 1819, the daughter of Joseph Yates and Elizabeth Saylor. Her father,…

The city of Charleston was incorporated in 1783 with the motto “Aedes Mors Juraque Curat” (She guards her buildings, customs,…

Soils are the products of natural processes occurring on or near Earth’s surface. Water accumulation and movement, oxygen levels, plant…