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Beginning in the 1920s, art has had a significant economic impact by virtue of its role in fostering tourism and later through museums dedicated to art.

The Ashley River is perhaps unrivaled in the Southeast, if not the nation, for its history, its diversity of habitats, and its location in a major city.

The Ashley River Road began as a Native American trading path, paralleling the Ashley River, and later served the colonists of the original Charleston settlement.

One of several southern journalists whose “liberal” views on desegregation and civil rights attracted national attention and local scorn, Ashmore won a Pulitzer Prize for his editorials opposing Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus’s attempt to stop the integration of Little Rock’s Central High School in 1957.

The Ashwood Plantation project was a government sponsored agricultural community established as a resettlement site for tenant farmers displaced by the Great Depression.

Among Asian religious traditions, those introduced by Indian immigrants—including Hindu, Jain, and Sikh groups—have probably had greater impact on South Carolina’s religious landscape.

With cotton prices low and the boll weevil creeping ever closer, farmers in the “Ridge” counties of Aiken, Edgefield, and Saluda began planting asparagus to supplement their dwindling cotton incomes.

In 1782 the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church in the United States was organized in Philadelphia. The Associate Reformed Synod of the South, later called the General Synod, was organized in 1803 and became known as the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church.

The lyrics to a ballad, as sung by Rev. W. L. Jones at the Bishops' Council, Emmanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church [near Charleston, South Carolina].

Describes Poinsett's efforts to save overthrown Mexican officials who faced an angry mob. Poinsett unveiled the American Flag and proclaimed that it protected all of those people who took refuge under its principles.

Atlantic Beach flourished during the 1940s and 1950s as one of the few places on the East Coast where black families could enjoy beach vacations during the era of segregation.

The Atlantic Coast Lumber Company's log pond sits on the Sampit River. The Georgetown Rice Milling Company is the large brick building in the background.