South Carolina Trivia & Tidbits

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In 1959, newlyweds Clyde and Betty Jackson, of Edgefield (pop. 4,449), drove their 1956 Ford Thunderbird to honeymoon in Daytona Beach, Fla. (pop. 64,112). A few years later, they parked the car in a shed where it sat rusting until their daughter surprised them by having it restored. This year, the couple repeated their honeymoon trip in the Thunderbird.

first appeared: 11/1/2009

The Charleston City Marina's MegaDock extends 1,530 feet and is the longest freestanding floating fuel dock in the Southeast.

first appeared: 10/18/2009

The home of John Rutledge, one of the signers of the U.S. Constitution, serves as The John Rutledge House Inn in Charleston (pop. 96,650). Built in 1763, the restored home is one of only 15 surviving homes of the 55 men who signed the Constitution.

first appeared: 10/4/2009

Boone Hall Plantation in Mount Pleasant (pop. 47,609), the College of Charleston and a house on Martin's Point Plantation on Wadmalaw Island were among locations used to film the 2004 movie The Notebook starring Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams.

first appeared: 9/20/2009

The only public park in the United States to house all eight swan species is Swan Lake Iris Gardens in Sumter (pop. 39,643).

first appeared: 9/6/2009

The world's longest sand sculpture was built in 1991 and stretched 86,553 feet, or 16.39 miles, in Myrtle Beach (pop. 22,759).

first appeared: 8/23/2009

Brown's Ferry Vessel, which was built in the early 1700s and sank about 1730, is believed to be America's oldest boat. The 50-foot freighter was raised from the Black River in 1976 and underwent 16 years of restoration before being installed in the Rice Museum in Georgetown (pop. 8,950).

first appeared: 8/9/2009

Located along the Catawba River, Landsford Canal State Park near Lancaster (pop. 8,177) is home to the well-preserved remains of a canal system that made the river commercially navigable from 1820 to 1835.

first appeared: 7/26/2009

—The state owns and manages three regional farmers markets: Columbia State Farmers Market in Columbia, Greenville State Farmers Market in Greenville (pop. 56,002), and the Pee Dee State Farmers Market between Florence (pop. 30,248) and Darlington (pop. 6,720).

first appeared: 7/12/2009

—Debi Boies, of Landrum (pop. 2,472), and pilot Jon Wehrenberg, of Knoxville, Tenn., founded Pilots N Paws to rescue doomed animals. Pilots volunteer their time, planes and fuel to transport dogs and cats to rescue groups.

first appeared: 6/28/2009

—In 1844, "The Bluffton Movement," a protest by planters against federal taxes, birthed the secession movement, which led South Carolina to become the first state to leave the Union. Planters met under what became known as the "Secession Oak" in Bluffton (pop. 1,275) to voice their discontent.

first appeared: 6/14/2009

—In the 1930s, Willie Lee Buffington, a poor white mill worker from Saluda (pop. 3,066), started the Faith Cabin Library movement to bring books to blacks. He helped start more than 100 libraries with donated books sent from across the United States.

first appeared: 5/31/2009

—The state's official snack food is boiled peanuts. Unroasted peanuts are boiled in heavy salt water for several hours and are sold at stores and roadside stands.

first appeared: 5/17/2009

—In 1995, Shannon Faulkner of Powderville (pop. 5,362) became the first female cadet to be admitted to the The Citadel, an all-male military academy in Charleston, after a successful court challenge.

first appeared: 5/3/2009

–The state's first intercollegiate football game was played on Dec. 14, 1889, between Wofford College in Spartanburg (pop. 39,673) and Furman University in Greenville (pop. 56,002), at Spartanburg.

first appeared: 4/19/2009

—In 1891, John F. North was among settlers who donated land for a railroad depot and town. The town-North (pop. 813), South Carolina-is named after him.

first appeared: 4/5/2009

—The first rice to be grown commercially in the state in more than 100 years is Carolina Plantation Rice, grown at Plumfield Plantation, near Darlington (pop. 6,720). Campbell Coxe reintroduced the crop in 1996.

first appeared: 3/22/2009

One of the most important collections of European sacred art in America, along with items dating from biblical times, is housed at Bob Jones University Museum and Gallery in Greenville (pop. 56,002).

first appeared: 3/8/2009

—Football tailgating parties at the University of South Carolina in Columbia are upscale on the Cockaboose Railroad, which consists of 22 cabooses parked on a railroad spur outside Williams-Brice Stadium. The “cockabooses,” which were sold for $40,000 each in 1990, have been lavishly decorated by owners and Gamecocks fans.

first appeared: 2/22/2009

—William Carney was the first black soldier to receive the Medal of Honor. He received the award for heroic actions during the Civil War on July 18, 1863, at Fort Wagner.

first appeared: 2/8/2009

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