State HouseThree different buildings have served as the capitol of South Carolina. Construction of the first statehouse began in June 1753…
State MottoesSouth Carolina has two official mottoes. These were engraved on the original great seal in 1777. animis opibusque parati (Prepared…
State Normal SchoolIn 1873 the South Carolina General Assembly, recognizing a need for trained teachers to educate African American citizens following the…
State ParksAs of 2004, South Carolina’s system of state parks consisted of forty-six properties totaling more than eighty thousand acres of…
State RoadSouth Carolina’s early road system could best be described as “local option.” The roads were generally poor and were designed…
State SealThe great seal of South Carolina was first used on a document dated May 22, 1777. It was a double-sided,…
State SymbolsAs sovereign political entities, all fifty states have adopted special symbols. In every state the first emblem was a seal,…
State, The(2003 circulation: 114,442 daily and 148,820 Sunday). The State is a morning daily newspaper published weekdays and Sundays in the…
StateburgThe name of this town, located in western Sumter County in the High Hills of Santee, reflects Stateburg’s raison d’être.…
States' RightsThe doctrine of states’ rights, a recurring theme of South Carolina political thought, is composed of two elements: a belief…
Steadman, MarkNovelist. Steadman was born in Statesboro, Georgia, on July 2, 1930, the son of Mark Sidney Steadman, Sr., an engineer…
Steele, Henry MaxwellWriter, educator. Max Steele was born in Greenville on March 30, 1922, the son of John M. Steele and Minnie…
Stevenson, Ferdinan BackerLieutenant governor, civic leader, author. “Nancy” Stevenson was born on June 8, 1928, in New Rochelle, New York, the daughter…
Stewart, Thomas McCantsLawyer, civil rights leader. Born in Charleston on December 28, 1853, to free black parents, George Gilchrist Stewart and Anna…
Stoneman's RaidThis minor cavalry raid through the South Carolina upstate occurred in the weeks following the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln and the flight of Confederate president Jefferson Davis and his cabinet from Richmond, Virginia.
Stoney, Samuel GaillardArchitect, author, historian, preservationist. Stoney is considered by many to be the quintessential Charlestonian. Born in Charleston on August 29,…
Stono RebellionThe Stono Rebellion was a violent albeit failed attempt by as many as one hundred slaves to reach St. Augustine…
Stowers, FreddieSoldier, Medal of Honor recipient. This Anderson County native was the nation’s only African American from World War I to…
Strawberry Chapel(Berkeley County). James Child, founder of Childsbury Town on the Cooper River in St. John’s Berkeley Parish, bequeathed an acre…
Strawberry FerryInitially, the ferry served to transport livestock, enslaved people, carriages, and other passengers across the Cooper River to and from the short-lived town of Childsbury, which surrounded Strawberry Chapel.
