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100 unusual facts about South Carolina


2002 Atlantic hurricane season

On October 11, Kyle reached land and made its first landfall near McClellanville, South Carolina.

A. Shane Massey

On March 20, 2009, Massey announced that he will be a Republican candidate for the US House of Representatives South Carolina's 3rd congressional district.

Abraham Van Buren

Van Buren fell in love with her and the two were married at Colonel Richard Singleton's Wedgefield, South Carolina, plantation named "Home Place".

Alexander S. Wallace

He engaged in agricultural pursuits until his death near York, South Carolina, June 27, 1893.

Born near York, South Carolina, the son of an American colonial immigrant, McCasland Wallace (born at sea on the Atlantic Ocean to a Scots-Irish family on their way to the port of Charleston, South Carolina), Wallace received a limited schooling.

Annie B. Martin

Born in Eastover, South Carolina to Jacob and Queenie Martin, the seventh of eight children, Martin was introduced as a small child by her father to labor activist A. Philip Randolph.

April 1924 tornado outbreak

12 deaths were in the community of Horrell Hill, where a school was struck; 39 were killed elsewhere by this series of storms.

Asbury Latimer

Born near Lowndesville, South Carolina, he attended the common schools, engaged in agricultural pursuits, and in 1880 moved to Belton, South Carolina and devoted his time to farming.

Ashley Ridge High School

Ashley Ridge High School is a secondary school located in Dorchester County, South Carolina, USA, and is the newest high school in Dorchester School District 2.

Aubrey Daniels

Aubrey C. Daniels, Ph.D. (born May 17, 1935 in Lake City, South Carolina, USA) is a clinical psychologist by training, but is sometimes referred to as “the father of performance management”, as he was one of the first to make extensive use of the science of behavior analysis in business.

Barber–Colman Company

By 1931, the company also had production facilities in Framingham, Massachusetts; Greeneville, South Carolina; Munich, Germany; Chicago; Cincinnati, Ohio; Rochester, New York; and Manchester, England.

Battle of Grimball's Causeway

Several small skirmishes and expeditions were carried out against James Island and Johns Island.

Benjamin Hawkins

In 1786, Hawkins and fellow Indian agents Andrew Pickens and Joseph Martin concluded a treaty with the Choctaw nation at Seneca Old Town, today's Hopewell, South Carolina.

Blackie Collins

Collins died July 20, 2011 in a motorcycle accident near North, South Carolina.

BMW Z4

First generation production started in 2002 at BMW USA's Greer, South Carolina plant, with production of both roadster and coupe forms.

Bonnie Ethel Cone

Instead they enrolled her at Coker College, a women's school in Hartsville, South Carolina, where she was one of 275 students, including her older sister, Louise, with whom Bonnie roomed her first year.

Brandon Jamison

Brandon Leon Jamison (born July 31, 1981 in Hopkins, South Carolina) is a former American football linebacker in the National Football League.

Cadwalader Ringgold

While in command of the frigate Sabine on November 1, 1861, he effected the rescue of a battalion of 400 Marines from Maryland whose transport steamer, Governor, was sinking during a severe storm near Port Royal, South Carolina.

Carolina Cyclone

The Carolina Cyclone is a roller coaster located at Carowinds in Charlotte, North Carolina and Fort Mill, South Carolina.

Chaloklowa Chickasaw

The Chaloklowa Chickasaws are headquartered in Hemingway, South Carolina and are led by Chief Vernon Tanner and Vice-Chief Joe Tanner.

Charles Pickard Ware

An abolitionist, he served as a civilian administrator in the Union Army, where he was a supervisor of freedmen on plantations at Port Royal, South Carolina during the Civil War.

Chase Page

Page attended Summerville High School in Summerville, South Carolina during his senior season after transferring from Wando High School in Charleston and Tuckahoe Middle School in Richmond, Virginia.

Coast Guard Air Station Savannah

Air Station Savannah provides Search & Rescue(SAR) coverage 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, for 450 miles of shoreline from the northern border of South Carolina to Melbourne, Florida, averaging more than 250 SAR cases a year.

D. J. Trahan

Shortly after being born his parents moved to Hilton Head Island, South Carolina where he spent his younger years playing at Harbour Town Golf Links and where he attended Hilton Head Island High School.

Dallen Bounds

Law enforcement officers have closed four murders in Greenville and Pickens counties of South Carolina, and officials in the state of Washington suspect he was involved in several other murders.

Daniel Henry Chamberlain

After a bitterly fought 1876 campaign, his second term hinged on disputed votes from Laurens and Edgefield counties, where the counts greatly exceeded the population, and overwhelmingly favored his opponent, ex-Confederate Wade Hampton III.

David E. Finley

He attended the public schools of Rock Hill, South Carolina and Ebenezer, South Carolina and was graduated from the law department of South Carolina College (now the University of South Carolina) at Columbia, South Carolina in 1885.

Dixie-Narco

Dixie-Narco is a major manufacturer of soda vending machines located in Williston, South Carolina.

Dogwood Dominion Award

It was established in 1993 by W. Cothran "Cot" Campbell, president of the racing partnership Dogwood Stable, now based in Aiken, South Carolina.

E. M. V. Naganathan

Dr. E.M.V. Naganathan died on 16 August 1971, and Mrs. Retnavathi Naganathan died on 11 December 2006, in Columbia, South Carolina, USA.

Earl of Shaftesbury

Charleston was founded on the western bank of the Ashley in 1670 (at Charles Towne Landing), before moving across to its current peninsular location ten years later.

Easley High School

The largest high school in Pickens County, it educates people in the eastern area of the county.

Ebenezer Erskine Pressly

Ebenezer Erskine Pressly was born on December 23, 1808, in the lower part of Abbeville District, South Carolina.

Ferguson v. City of Charleston

Soon after the urine screenings began, the case manager in the hospital's obstetrics department heard that police in Greenville, South Carolina, were arresting pregnant women who used cocaine for child abuse.

Frances Rollin Whipper

In 1865, she as illegally refused first class passage on a ferry to Beaufort.

Frances Anne Rollin Whipper (1845?-1901) was born in Charleston, South Carolina, United States.

George C. Royal

Royal was born in Williamston, South Carolina, in 1921, the oldest boy of nine children of African-American and Native American descent.

Grady Howard

He was a member of Cape Fear Valley Hospital's original board of trustees and a member of Highland Baptist Church in Taylors, South Carolina although he attended the First Presbyterian Church in Spring Lake for more than 50 years.

Graniteville

Graniteville, South Carolina, unincorporated community in Aiken County, South Carolina

Hastings Arthur Wise

Although the crimes were committed in Aiken County, the trial itself was held in Beaufort County, South Carolina by order of the trial judge, who felt that the publicity around the crime may have tainted the Aiken County jury pool.

Henry Martyn Robert

Robert was born in Robertville, South Carolina, and raised in Ohio, where his father moved the family because of his strong opposition to slavery.

Henry Timrod

In 1856 he accepted a post as a teacher at the plantation of Col. William Henry Cannon in the area that would later become Florence, South Carolina.

Hickory Wind

In 2002, an article on the website www.folklinks.com controversially claimed that "Hickory Wind" wasn't, in fact, written by Gram Parsons, but by Sylvia Sammons—a blind folksinger from Greenville, South Carolina—with Bob Buchanan later contributing an additional verse.

Irene Daye

Irene Daye (January 17, 1918 in Lawrence, Massachusetts - November 1, 1971 in Greenville, South Carolina) was an American jazz singer.

Jeremy Geathers

Geathers attended Andrews High School in Andrews, South Carolina.

Jervis B. Webb Company

The company headquarters is in Farmington Hills, Michigan, with offices and manufacturing plants internationally including Carlisle, South Carolina; Harbor Springs, Michigan; Boyne City, Michigan; Hamilton, Ontario; Northampton, England; Ludwigshafen, Germany; Palaiseau, France; Barcelona, Spain; Shanghai, China and Bangalore, India.

John Kerr, Sr.

Kerr briefly coached the boys' team at Hilton Head High School in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina in the mid-2000s.

John Siceloff

John Siceloff (born October 21, 1953, Frogmore, South Carolina) is an American Television producer.

Joshua Rogers

A native of Greeleyville, South Carolina, Rogers grew up singing and playing the drums in the Apostolic church pastored by his grandmother.

Kingston Presbyterian Church

a NRHP in South Carolina

Left Bank Jazz Society

Left Bank was founded by Vernon L. Welsh (10 February 1919 – 8 August 2002 Baltimore, Maryland) and Benny Kearse (16 March 1930 Allendale, South Carolina – 29 June 1999 Baltimore, Maryland).

Litchfield Plantation

Litchfield Plantation in Pawleys Island, South Carolina is one of the oldest rice plantations on the Waccamaw River.

Luther Broughton

He graduated and played his high school football at Cainhoy High School in Huger, South Carolina.

Lyndon Woodside

Lyndon Woodside (March 23, 1935, Florence, South Carolina-August 23, 2005, Englewood, New Jersey) was the 10th conductor of the Oratorio Society of New York.

Margaret C. McCulloch

After moving to Frogmore, South Carolina, McCulloch taught for nine years at the Penn School, a school for black students located on St. Helena Island, South Carolina.

Mark Kilstofte

Mark Kilstofte (born 1958) is an American composer, and professor at Furman University, Greenville, South Carolina, reared in Pueblo, Colorado.

Maynard Pittendreigh

Pittendreigh attended Christ Church Episcopal School, Greenville, South Carolina, Ware Shoals (SC) High School, and received his BA degree at Erskine College in Due West, South Carolina.

McBee Baptist Church

McBee Baptist Church is located on North Fifth Street near Hwy 151 in McBee, South Carolina.

Miriam Stevenson

Miriam Jacqueline Stevenson (born July 4 July 1933, in Winnsboro, South Carolina), won the Miss USA pageant as Miss South Carolina USA in 1954.

Mubarak Ali Gilani

Among other projects it has model communities in the Town of Hancock, New York, called Islamberg, and in York County, South Carolina, called Holy Islamville.

National Register of Historic Places listings in Columbia, South Carolina

The city of Columbia is the location of 122 of these properties and districts, including all of the National Historic Landmarks; they are listed here, while the 34 properties and districts in the remaining parts of the county are listed separately.

National Register of Historic Places listings in Greenville, South Carolina

There are 72 properties and districts listed on the National Register in Greenville County.

National Register of Historic Places listings in Richland County, South Carolina

The city of Columbia is the location of 122 of these properties and districts, including all of the National Historic Landmarks; they are listed separately, while the 34 properties and districts in the remaining parts of the county are listed here.

NS Savannah

In 1981, Savannah was obtained via bareboat charter for display at the Patriots Point Naval and Maritime Museum near Mount Pleasant, South Carolina.

Palaeochenoides

The first fossil assigned to it – a distal right femur piece – was found near the source of the Stono River in Charleston County, South Carolina (USA).

R U Faster Than a Redneck?

The concept of the show is simple: volunteers can bring their import cars to the Carolina Motorsports Park Kershaw in Kershaw County, South Carolina, to race them against a selection of American muscle cars.

Redneck Performing Arts Association

No admission is charged to the family-friendly event, held since 1991 at the Clemson National Guard Armory in Pendleton, South Carolina.

Rhydon Mays Call

Rhydon Call's mother was the daughter of Rydon G. Mays, an Edgefield, South Carolina physician and planter

Robbie Caldwell

Caldwell, a Pageland, South Carolina native, attended Furman University where he played football and was a three-year letterman.

Samuel Hammond

He retired from public life and died in 1842 at his home, "Varello Farm," at Beech Island, South Carolina, which is on the South Carolina side of the Savannah River, near Augusta, Georgia.

Sebastian Savage

Sebastian Eugene Savage (born December 12, 1969 in Carlisle, South Carolina) is a former American football cornerback in the National Football League for the Washington Redskins.

Seneca, South Carolina

This village has been called Jordania, Londsdale, and Utica as the ownership of the plant changed.

Shriners Hospitals for Children

The Shriners had considered closing facilities in Shreveport, Louisiana; Greenville, South Carolina; Erie, Pennsylvania; Spokane, Washington; Springfield, Massachusetts and

Smyrna Baptist Church

Smyrna Baptist Church (Kirkland Church) is a historic church at Allendale, South Carolina.

South Carolina Highway 700

SC 700 connects Charleston with James Island, Johns Island, and Wadmalaw Island in southwestern Charleston County.

South Carolina's 1st congressional district special election, 1971

The 1971 South Carolina 1st congressional district special election was held on April 27, 1971 to select a Representative for the 1st congressional district to serve out the remainder of the term for the 92nd Congress.

South Carolina's 4th congressional district special election, 1915

The 1915 South Carolina 4th congressional district special election was held on September 14, 1915 to select a Representative for the 4th congressional district to serve out the remainder of the term for the 64th Congress.

South Carolina's 6th congressional district special election, 1807

Casey had been elected for a third term to the 10th United States Congress in the 1806 elections.

South Carolina's 7th congressional district special election, 1901

The 1901 South Carolina 7th congressional district special election was held on November 5, 1901 to select a Representative for the 7th congressional district to serve out the remainder of the term for the 57th Congress.

Southern National Bank

Later that year, Southern National announced the $5.6 million purchase of First Palmetto Bancshares Corp. of Columbia and the $9.75 million purchase of Capital Bank and Trust Co. of Belton.

Stanyarne Wilson

He returned to Spartanburg, South Carolina, in January 1928, and died there February 14, 1928.

Stephen Euin Cobb

Stephen Euin Cobb (born February 3, 1955) is a U.S. author, magazine writer, interviewer and podcast show host that was born in Orangeburg, South Carolina.

Steve Addington

Addington left qualifying early for the June 2008 race at Dover International Speedway to attend his daughter Ashlyn's graduation from Boiling Springs High School in Boiling Springs, South Carolina.

Ted Vick

In November 2011, he announced he would run in the newly created South Carolina's 7th congressional district.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in South Carolina

In 1897, mobs burned one of South Carolina's first Latter-day Saint meetinghouses in Centerville.

The Inspiration Network

The Inspiration Network, also known as INSP, features family entertainment programming based television network headquartered in Indian Land, South Carolina, near Charlotte.

The Inspiration Networks

The original facilities for producing the networks were relocated in the 1990s from Heritage USA in Fort Mill, South Carolina to a newly constructed production studio and headquarters in a business park in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Thomas A. Wofford

He was admitted to the bar in the latter year and commenced the practice of law in Greenville.

Thomas Bothwell Jeter

Born in Santuc, South Carolina, five miles north of Carlisle in Union County, Jeter attended and graduated from South Carolina College in 1846.

Thomas E. Atkins

Atkins retired from the army and settled in his home town of Campobello, South Carolina where he eventually became a farmer.

Tom D. McKeown

Born in Blackstock, South Carolina, McKeown was the son of Theodore B. and Nannie B.Robinson McKeown.

United States Senate election in South Carolina, 1902

However, both were strongly opposed to each other and a duel almost ensued between the two while campaigning at St. George on July 12.

University of South Carolina System

USC Beaufort has a branch in Bluffton, USC Union has a branch in Laurens and USC Salkehatchie has its main campus in Allendale with a branch in Walterboro.

Ware Shoals High School

Ware Shoals High School is a high school located in Ware Shoals, South Carolina.

Warrenville, South Carolina

In 2008, there were talks about incorporating the villages of Warrenville, Graniteville, and Vaucluse; as a result, the towns approved a referendum to vote on whether or not to incorporate.

Whale Branch Early College High School

The high school serves students in the northernmost portions of Beaufort County, including the unincorporated communities of Dale, Lobeco, Seabrook, and Sheldon.

William Dunlap Simpson

He practiced law in Laurens with his partner (and father-in-law) Henry Clinton Young.

WMBF-TV

Cable systems in the southern end of the Grand Strand in DeBordieu Beach do not carry WMBF but it can be received by antenna there.

Wren Fire Department

The Wren Fire Department response area includes most of the Anderson county portion of Piedmont, South Carolina

WROO

Despite only having 700 watts ERP, the station's antenna height equates it to a class A FM; however, the signal only provides grade B coverage to portions of the Spartanburg County part of the market.


Addicted to Bad Ideas

In 2009 World Inferno performed this work at festivals such as Public Theater's Under the Radar Festival, Philadelphia's Live Arts Festival, Montclair State University's Peak Performances series, and South Carolina's Spoleto Festival USA.

Ananias Club

The Ananias Club, supposedly named for Ananias who fell dead when he lied to the apostle Peter about a financial transaction, was an expression employed by the press in 1906-1907 to avoid the "short and ugly word" (liar) in connection with the "mutual accusations of in veracity" which arose between President Theodore Roosevelt and Senator Benjamin Tillman of South Carolina over the railroad rate bill.

Arnold W. Braswell

In July 1977 he returned to the United States as director for plans and policy (J-5), Organization of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in Washington, D.C. In June 1978, he became commander of Tactical Air Command's 9th Air Force with headquarters at Shaw Air Force Base in South Carolina.

Boletellus ananas

The species was first named by Moses Ashley Curtis as Boletus ananas in 1848, based on specimens he found near the Santee River, in South Carolina.

Carolina heelsplitter

Historically the Carolina heelsplitter was known to be found in the Catawba River and Pee Dee River systems in North Carolina, and the Pee Dee and Savannah River systems of South Carolina.

Clay Shaw

Jack Wardlaw, then of the since defunct New Orleans States-Item, an afternoon newspaper, and his fellow journalist Rosemary James, a native of South Carolina, co-authored Plot or Politics, a 1967 book which takes issue with the Garrison investigation as one of political style, rather than substantive evidence.

Council of Conservative Citizens

The CofCC continues protesting speaking engagements by Morris Dees in Alabama, Mississippi, Missouri, Indiana, and South Carolina, declaring him to be a threat to free speech and a fraud.

David Gatten

To produce What the Water Said, Nos.1-3, Gatten placed unexposed rolls of film in crab traps in the Atlantic Ocean off the South Carolina coast.

Emmet M. Walsh

He served as Bishop of Charleston, South Carolina (1927–1949) and Bishop of Youngstown, Ohio (1952–1968).

Fruit and vegetable beer

RJ Rockers Brewing Company of South Carolina released Son of a Peach Wheat Ale in 2009 which is made with real peaches added during the fermentation process.

Gamble Plantation Historic State Park

The columns and the two-foot-thick walls were made of tabby, a unique regional material of the Southeast developed in South Carolina and the Sea Islands because of the shortage of clay for bricks.

Immortal Six Hundred

In 1864, the Confederate Army imprisoned 50 Union Army officers as human shields against federal artillery in the city of Charleston, South Carolina, in an attempt to stop Union artillery from firing upon civilians in the city.

Jane Ballard Dyer

In 2008 and 2010 she ran unsuccessfully for the 3rd congressional district seat in South Carolina as the nominee of the Democratic Party and Working Families Party.

Jeremy Bird

When Barack Obama announced his candidacy in 2007, Bird joined as the field director for South Carolina.

John H. Howell

Wounded at the Battle of Fair Oaks, he returned home and later received an appointment as Captain of the 3rd Artillery and a staff officer under Gen. Henry Morris Naglee, later accompanying him to South Carolina.

Joseph Crespino

Crespino is the author of Strom Thurmond’s America (Hill and Wang, 2012), a political biography of the longtime U.S. Senator from South Carolina.

Lacie Lybrand

Lybrand graduated from Lexington High School in 2000 and was already working for SCANA, a Fortune 500 company before she graduated.

Manning, South Carolina

It is part of South Carolina's 6th congressional district which since January 1993 has been represented by Jim Clyburn.

Mo Cowan

He was one of two African-American senators in the 113th Congress, along with Republican South Carolina Senator Tim Scott, who was also appointed to fill a vacancy.

Port Royal Island

Port Royal Island is a Sea Island in Beaufort County, South Carolina.

Prayer for Judgement Continued

The Prayer For Judgement law in North Carolina and South Carolina, unlike other U.S. states, allows traffic violators and some misdemeanor offenders to plead guilty for an offence and then ask for a "Prayer For Judgement" from the judge.

Sebastian Zouberbuhler

He worked as an agent for Samuel Waldo, who speculated in land, in South Carolina and Massachusetts (including what is now the state of Maine) during the 1730s.

Statewide opinion polling for the Republican Party presidential primaries, 2012

Haley Barbour of Mississippi, Jeb Bush of Florida, Chris Christie of New Jersey, Jim DeMint of South Carolina, Bobby Jindal of Louisiana, Tim Pawlenty of Minnesota, Paul Ryan of Wisconsin and John Thune of South Dakota all succeeded in leading polls in their home states at some point in 2011, although only Pawlenty actually launched a campaign.

Swing state

For instance, a Republican candidate (the more conservative of the two major parties) can expect to easily win many of the Southern states like Texas, Mississippi, Alabama, and South Carolina, which historically have a very conservative culture, very religious, and a more recent history of voting for Republican candidates.

The Litchfield Company

The company owned a significant amount of land in the Pawleys Island area of South Carolina and spent forty years developing highly-amenitized resort communities stretching from the Atlantic Ocean to the Waccamaw River, many golf courses, and a large marina.

Tympanonesiotes

The only known specimen (USNM 16809), a distal right tarsometatarsus end, was found in the Cooper River near Drum Island at Charleston, South Carolina (USA).

United States House of Representatives elections in South Carolina, 1876

Incumbent Republican Congressman Solomon L. Hoge of the 3rd congressional district, in office since 1875, declined to seek re-election.

United States House of Representatives elections in South Carolina, 1904

Incumbent Democratic Congressman David E. Finley of the 5th congressional district, in office since 1899, defeated T. Yancey Williams in the Democratic primary and Republican C.P. White in the general election.

United States House of Representatives elections in South Carolina, 1920

Incumbent Democratic Congressman Richard S. Whaley of the 1st congressional district, in office since 1913, opted to retire.

United States House of Representatives elections in South Carolina, 1936

Gabriel H. Mahon, Jr., winner of the Democratic primary for both the special and regular election of the 4th congressional district, defeated two Republicans in the general election to win the term for the 75th Congress.

United States House of Representatives elections in South Carolina, 1976

Incumbent Democratic Congressman Kenneth Lamar Holland of the 5th congressional district, in office since 1975, defeated Republican challenger Bobby Richardson.

United States House of Representatives elections in South Carolina, 1980

Incumbent Democratic Congressman John Jenrette of the 6th congressional district, in office since 1975, was defeated in his bid for re-election by Republican John Light Napier.

United States House of Representatives elections in South Carolina, 1994

Incumbent Democratic Congressman Butler Derrick of the 3rd congressional district, in office since 1975, opted to retire.

United States Senate election in South Carolina, 1984

Governor Richard Riley and 3rd district Representative Butler Derrick flirted with running, but backed down when Thurmond received endorsements from prominent Democrats in South Carolina.

WZMJ

Clemson University sports will continue to air, and Lexington High School sports, but the Carolina Panthers will move to WWNU.