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The state’s first building to be used solely as a theater, Dock Street Theatre in Charleston, was constructed in 1736.

first appeared: 7/21/2002

Towns in South Carolina include Coward, Due West, Ninety Six, North, Six Mile, Southern Shops, and Welcome.

first appeared: 7/14/2002

Just south of Charleston is the Angel Oak, said to be an amazing sight at 65 feet tall with a 25.5-foot circumference and a 17,000-square-foot area of shade.

first appeared: 7/7/2002

Johnston (pop. 2,336) calls itself the Peach Capital of the World and celebrates with a Peach Blossom Festival every April.

first appeared: 6/30/2002

Old Stone Church in Pickens County was built in 1797. The remains of so many famous citizens of the region rest in its cemetery that the church has been called “The Westminster Abbey of the Upcountry.”

first appeared: 6/23/2002

The Town Clock in Winnsboro (pop. 3,599) came from France in the 1830s. It is considered the oldest continuously running clock in America.

first appeared: 6/16/2002

Located in southern York County, Historic Brattonsville village features a restored plantation house, a 19th-century doctor’s office, and other examples of architecture intact for more than 200 years.

first appeared: 6/9/2002

Walterboro (pop. 5,153) is home to the Colleton County Rice Festival, which commemorates the area’s rice heritage.

first appeared: 6/2/2002

Work began on the first railroad to regularly employ steam-driven locomotives Jan. 9, 1830, in Charleston. The Best Friend locomotive, the first one used, ran on Christmas Day of that year.

first appeared: 5/26/2002

The U.S.S. Clamagore, on display in Mt. Pleasant, is one of the fleet submarines built during World War II for the U.S. Navy. It is the sole survivor of its vessel type.

first appeared: 5/19/2002

Middleburg Plantation, possibly the oldest wooden dwelling in the state, was built in 1699 in Berkeley County by Benjamin Simons, a French Huguenot planter.

first appeared: 5/12/2002

The 1820 Jacob Kelley House near Hartsville (pop. 7,556) was used by federal forces as headquarters for two days in 1865 while scouting parties seized provisions for Gen. William T. Sherman.

first appeared: 5/5/2002

Completed in 1857, the Church of the Holy Apostles in Barnwell (pop. 5,035) was once used as a stable for Union cavalry. Before the church was seized, the congregation hid the stained-glass windows, some of which hang again in the church today.

first appeared: 4/28/2002

Chesterfield County was named for English statesman and author Philip Dormer Stanhope, fourth Earl of Chesterfield (1694-1773). He is best known for his witty letters illustrating aristocratic life in England.

first appeared: 4/21/2002

Abbeville (pop. 5,840) is called the Birthplace and Deathbed of the Confederacy. A meeting to launch the state’s secession from the Union took place there on Nov. 22, 1860. In 1865, Confederate President Jefferson Davis and his government met in Abbeville and dissolved the Confederacy.

first appeared: 4/14/2002

Georgetown (pop. 8,950) calls itself the “ghost capital of the South.” Claiming more than 100 ghosts inhabit the coastal region, the town holds an annual Ghost Hunt featuring carnivals, contests, and other festivities.

first appeared: 4/7/2002

Lake Keowee in Pickens and Oconee counties was once the site of the capital of the Lower Cherokee Nation. Keowee means “place of the mulberries.”

first appeared: 3/31/2002

Born in Charleston in 1781, Robert Mills became architect and engineer to the federal government in 1836. He designed the 555-foot Washington Monument, the tallest masonry structure in the world.

first appeared: 3/24/2002

A building material used extensively by settlers along South Carolina and Georgia coasts is called tabby, a cement mixture made from lime, sand, and oyster shells. It’s widely thought that 16th-century Spanish explorers first brought tabby to the New World.

first appeared: 3/17/2002

St. David’s Episcopal Church in Cheraw (pop. 5,524), established in 1768, was the last state-church parish established under King George III.

first appeared: 3/10/2002

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