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The typical single house stands two or more stories in height and is built on a rectangular plan with its narrow end facing the street.

Charleston Southern has built on its mission, “promoting academic excellence in a Christian environment,” by offering more than thirty undergraduate and graduate degree programs, thirty-five student organizations, and eighteen National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I athletic teams.

Charleston Southern University's Lightsey Chapel Auditorium is one of the signature buildings on campus. The facility is the home for campus events, concerts, theatre and more.

Charleston Tea Plantation produces the only tea grown in the United States on Wadmalaw Island, thirty miles south of Charleston.

Front of postcard showing color illustration of the Charleston Orphan House. On back, handwritten correspondence with postmark from Charleston, South Carolina, and 1-cent United States postage stamp.

Circular letter requesting cooperation for support of a newspaper press in Washington to combat the Wilmot Proviso.

Though a continuous enemy presence off Charleston was maintained by the Federals from May 28, 1861, when the Union navy established its blockade, Charleston did not find itself under constant attack until July 1863.

The siege of Charleston marked the commencement of major British operations in the South during the Revolutionary War.

Charter schools are intended to improve learning, increase opportunities, encourage innovative teaching methods, establish new forms of accountability, create professional opportunities for teachers, and to generally assist South Carolina in reaching academic excellence.

On May 10, 1974, Congress designated the Chattooga River a National Wild and Scenic River, the first east of the Mississippi. A protected corridor was created on both sides of the river.

During the early 1960s Checker had thirty more chart hits. Eleven of these reached the top twenty, including a re-release of “The Twist” in 1962 that reached number one and made Checker the only artist to have had the same single song at number one on different releases.

Quite a party assembled for an inspection of the dredge that worked the Minim Creek Canal in 1895 and 1896, between Winyah Bay and the Santee River. Supervising the dredging operation was U.S. Engineer Reid Whitford, who possibly arranged this tour of the dredge.

Because South Carolina had important nuclear reactors used to generate electricity, the Savannah River Site, and other activities that created low-level radioactive waste, it was considered a good state in which to locate a low-level radioactive waste disposal facility.

Cheraw’s position on the Great Pee Dee made it an important point of trade and commerce from its inception.

Economically, Cherokee was the heart of the “Old Iron District.” The iron industry that had flourished in the 1700s and 1800s was gone by the end of the Civil War. In the 1880s iron production gave way to railroad construction.