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A blueprint was not used to build Atalaya, a 1930 castle on Huntington Beach at Murrells Inlet (pop. 5,519). Contractor William Thomson trailed owner Archer Huntington and took verbal instructions.

first appeared: 9/14/2003

The endangered white rocky shoals spider lily blooms along the Catawba River and is celebrated with a festival each May in Chester (pop. 6,476).

first appeared: 9/7/2003

The Carolina Tartan was adopted as the official state tartan in 2002 to honor the state’s Scottish heritage. Each Scottish clan has its own distinct plaid design.

first appeared: 8/31/2003

The state’s first radio station, WCSC-AM in Charleston, aired in 1930.

first appeared: 8/24/2003

During the Civil War, Secretary of War Edwin Stanton ordered the books in the Beaufort (pop. 12,950) library to be seized and auctioned, but Northerners protested and the order was rescinded.

first appeared: 8/17/2003

One of the world’s largest orchid nurseries, Carter and Holmes Orchids in Newberry (pop. 10,580), blooms with 18 greenhouses and 93,000 square feet of tropical beauty.

first appeared: 8/10/2003

By 1800, the largest Jewish community in America was in Charleston where the American Reform Judaism movement originated at Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim Synagogue in 1824.

first appeared: 8/3/2003

Brian J. Ford of Murrells Inlet (pop. 5,519) landed a world’s record yellowmouth grouper—22 pounds, 8 ounces—in 2001 off the coast of Murrells Inlet.

first appeared: 7/27/2003

As early as the 1750s, church services were held at Silver Bluff on the plantation of George Galphin in Beech Island. This is one of the oldest African-American Baptist churches in America.

first appeared: 7/20/2003

Founded in 1944, the University of South Carolina Press in Columbia is one of the South’s oldest publishing houses.

first appeared: 7/13/2003

Polo has been played in Aiken (pop. 25,337) since 1882, and Whitney Field is believed to be the nation’s oldest continuously-used polo field.

first appeared: 7/6/2003

With more than 100 golf courses within driving distance, Myrtle Beach (22,759) lays claim to being “Golf Capital of the World.”

first appeared: 6/29/2003

The spiritual was adopted as the official state music in 1999. The religious or sacred songs originated during the slave era.

first appeared: 6/22/2003

Established in 1862, Penn Center on St. Helena Island near Beaufort (pop. 12,950) was one of the first schools for freed slaves.

first appeared: 6/15/2003

The towns of Batesburg and Leesville combined assets in 1992 and became Batesburg-Leesville (pop. 5,517).

first appeared: 6/8/2003

The Tiger, published since 1907 at Clemson University in Clemson, (pop. 11,939) is the state’s oldest college newspaper.

first appeared: 6/1/2003

In 1823, John and Charlotte McGehee built a summer home on a 600-acre plantation named “Green Wood,” which became Greenwood (pop. 22,071).

first appeared: 5/25/2003

The nation’s second oldest daily newspaper, The Post and Courier in Charleston, celebrated its 200th birthday on Jan. 10. The New York Post, founded in 1801, is the oldest daily. The Hartford Courant in Hartford, Conn., is the oldest continuously published newspaper, first published as a weekly in 1764.

first appeared: 5/18/2003

The nation’s oldest chamber of commerce is the Charleston Metro Chamber of Commerce, established in 1773.

first appeared: 5/11/2003

During the Civil War, classes were suspended at South Carolina College in Columbia when students enlisted in the Army of the Confederacy and college buildings became a hospital. The 19th-century buildings form the historic Horseshoe at the renamed University of South Carolina.

first appeared: 5/4/2003

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