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Scanned from A Family of Women: The Carolina Petigrus in Peace and War by Jane and William Pease, University of North Carolina Press, 1999. p. 238. Author unknown, found in Caroline Carson's photo album, South Carolina Historical Society.

“Swamp Angel” was the nickname given to a 16,500-pound rifled Parrott cannon with an eight-inch bore that briefly shelled the…

This photo, taken on January 1, ,1934, shows a number of swans and geese on the lake. The original zoo included a lake for mute swans and native waterfowl such as Canada geese, mallards, and wood ducks.

Initially the factory made banana drums, barrels, furniture, and fine veneers. By 1903 production was expanded to include wooden crates, boxes, and baskets used by the burgeoning truck-farming industry in South Carolina for shipping fruits and vegetables.

In 1908 Swearingen was elected state superintendent of education, a position he would hold unopposed for fourteen years. He was quick to state that he was not political but was interested in education and saw the position as an opportunity to serve the state.

From 1934 to 1938 Swearingen attended the University of South Carolina. Inducted into Phi Beta Kappa in 1938, he graduated magna cum laude with a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering.

At the start of each legislative day, the sergeant at arms places the sword in a cradle at the front of the president’s podium, where it rests whenever the Senate is in session. The ceremonial weapon is made of steel and gold and is thirty-nine inches long.

Along the coasts of Florida, Alabama, Georgia, and the Carolinas, tabby was introduced by the Spanish in the seventeenth century…

Table Rock, located in the inner Piedmont belt, is just south of the Mountain Bridge Wilderness and Recreation Area, including Caesars Head and Jones Gap, both of which share a similar geologic history.

Across the lake at the Visitor's Center of Oolenoy State Park.

Educators. Between approximately 1816 and 1850, Madame Talvande’s Ladies Boarding School in Charleston educated the daughters of the elite families…

British soldier. Few other figures in South Carolina history have been labeled as villainous as Banastre Tarleton has. He was…