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2 unusual facts about palmetto


Palmetto Canning

Palmetto Canning is a historic jam, jelly and sauce manufacturer in Palmetto, Florida.

Palmetto, Florida

Charter schools include Manatee School for the Arts (grades 6-12), Imagine School of North Manatee (grades K-8) and Palmetto Charter School (grades K-8).


Cutler, Florida

Coral Reef Elementary School and Southwood Middle School had been located in Cutler before Palmetto Bay incorporated.

Westminster Christian School and Palmer Trinity School had been located in Cutler before Palmetto Bay incorporated.

Dade Massacre

Although the terrain he was now in, pines and palmettos, could not have concealed anyone who was standing or walking, it could and did conceal crouched or prone warriors waiting in ambush.

Dixon, New Orleans

A subdistrict of the Uptown/Carrollton Area, its boundaries as defined by the City Planning Commission are: Interstate 10 to the northeast, South Carrollton Avenue to the southeast, Palmetto Street to the southwest and Cherry, Dixon, Mistletoe, Peach, Hamilton, Quince and Last Streets to the northwest.

Edgefield Hussars

The Edgefield Advertiser described it as a Confederate flag with the following additions, where one side is a Palmetto tree overtopped with the Crescent, with the name ‘Edgefield Hussars’ gilded on a white bar.

Feld Entertainment

In January 2012, the company purchased Palmetto Corporate Center, a former Siemens Corp. complex in Ellenton, Florida, and plans to move most of its various operations and its world headquarters there over a five year period starting with its worldwide production center.

Julian C. Josey, Jr.

On October 15, 2013, Dr. Josey was presented with the Order of Palmetto, the highest honor in South Carolina, by South Carolina House Representatives Rita Allison and Eddie Tallon on behalf of Governor Nikki Haley.

Northeast Cape Fear River

The river and its valley are home to a variety of interesting and uncommon flora and fauna, including the palmetto, cypress, alligator, pileated woodpecker and bowfin.

S. mexicana

Sabal mexicana, the Mexican palmetto, Texas palmetto, Texas sabal Palm, Rio Grande palmetto or palma de Mícharos, a palm tree species native to North America

Sabal palmetto

On June 28, 1776, Charleston patriots under William Moultrie made a fort of palmetto trunks and from it defended successfully against the British in the Revolutionary War.

Second Battle of Fort Wagner

Surrounding the fort was a shallow moat riveted with sharpened palmetto logs, as abatis, and the moat on the seaward side had planks with spikes positioned beneath the water.

South Carolina Dispensary

Stoneware jugs in half-gallon and gallon sizes were also made, some made from clay with the palmetto tree and legend drawn by hand.

South Carolina gubernatorial election, 1998

In addition, the Palmetto League was being financed by video poker to attack Beasley's flip-flopping on the Confederate flag issue.

South Florida pine flatwoods

In addition to saw palmetto, the shrubs Appalachian tea (Ilex glabra), coastal plain staggerbush (Lyonia fruticosa), dwarf live oak (Quercus minima), shiny blueberry (Vaccinium myrsinites), and rosy camphorweed (Pluchea rosea) can be found in the flatwoods.

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.

University of South Carolina Beaufort

Palmetto Village is located on USCB's South Campus in Bluffton.


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