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More than forty commercial varieties of peaches are grown in South Carolina. In a normal year more than two hundred million pounds of peaches are harvested in the state.

The geology of the Peachtree Rock preserve reflects the conditions that existed during the Eocene to the Pleistocene epochs.

Peanuts have been cultivated and consumed in South Carolina since colonial times.

Pearson quickly demonstrated the talent to compete not only on the short dirt tracks but also on the growing number of high-banked, paved superspeedways.

For thousands of years people lived along the Pee Dee, and the river provided generously of fish, game, and waterfowl.

The threat that pellagra once posed in the South is now largely and happily forgotten. But in the first three decades of the twentieth century it was on many southerners’ minds.

In the years following the Civil War, Pelzer expanded his business interests into other areas connected to his cotton factoring business.

In November 1862 Pember was approached by Mrs. George W. Randolph, wife of the Confederate secretary of war. She asked Pember to serve as matron in Chimborazo Hospital, a complex of military hospitals on the outskirts of Richmond, Virginia.

Until the division of Pendleton District in 1826, the town was one of the most influential in the upper half of South Carolina.

The Pendleton Messenger began as Miller’s Weekly Messenger, named for its publisher “Printer” John Miller (ca. 1744–1807), an early white settler in the Pendleton District.

After becoming Penn Community Center in 1953, the institution began to focus on social issues affecting the well-being of the native islanders.

In South Carolina in the early twenty-first century, there were several other flourishing denominations that represented Pentecostalism, many with roots in the earlier Holiness movement.

In colonial South Carolina the periagua was the workhorse of river travel. It took settlers to the backcountry and served as their main vehicle of transportation and supply.

Perry’s political career culminated with his appointment as provisional governor of South Carolina by President Andrew Johnson

“Miss Jim” Perry was the first woman admitted to the South Carolina Bar and a distinguished lawyer and civic leader for forty years.

Perry’s most notable cases included his representation of Harvey Gantt in his admission as the first black student at Clemson University in 1963 and James Solomon and Henri Monteith in their admission that same year as the first African American students of the University of South Carolina in the twentieth century.

From about 1898 to 1926 Perry ran the Elhanan orphanage and school for poor children in Marion, North Carolina.

Although a professional-bowl-caliber defensive lineman, Perry became a national media sensation when head coach Mike Ditka began using the massive rookie as a running back.

Peterkin’s stark, poignant stories about black country folk were among the first flowerings in the movement toward ironic, realistic regional fiction later known as the Southern Renaissance

In the 1850s Petigru’s most distinctive equity practice relied heavily on arbitration and mediation to avoid erratic decisions from judges he considered inept