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The Timmonsville tobacco market opens for business. Miss South Carolina 1967, Peggy White, and others inspect the tobacco crop for auction at Farmer's Market.

Tobacco barn made by this African Americans for 50 cents.

Tobacco curing barns have helped to define the Pee Dee landscape since the 1880s. Unlike in Burley-tobacco regions such as…

An elderly man looks on as a young girl ties tobacco leaves for curing.

Farmers and laborers in tobacco field.

Promoter, publisher. Born in Appenzell, Switzerland, Tobler became that canton’s governor until he was removed from office in a power…

Publicity photo of John Chancellor, Frank Blair and Edwin Newman from the television program Today (The Today Show). The show was preparing to celebrate its 10th anniversary on the air at the time the photo was taken.

(Beaufort County). Tombee Plantation House was built by Thomas Benjamin Chaplin, for whom (“Tom B.”) it was named. A member…

Industrialist, journalist. Tompkins was born in Edgefield on October 12, 1851, the eldest child of Dewitt Clinton Tompkins and Hannah…

Tourism solidified its place in South Carolina’s economy during the twentieth century, but people have long flocked to the Palmetto…

(Columbia). Columbia’s Town Theatre is the longest continuously operating community theater in America. The theater got its start in June…

Educator. Towne was born on May 3, 1825, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to John Towne and Sarah Robinson. During her childhood…