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Revolutionary War Brigadier Gen. and South Carolina Sen. Francis Marion (1732-1795) was nicknamed “The Swamp Fox” by British military leaders for disrupting their plans with his outstanding guerilla warfare tactics from his base in the swamps.

first appeared: 3/3/2002

The phrase “Cotton is king” was coined in 1858. During a speech, U.S. Sen. James Henry Hammond boasted that the industrial nations of Europe could never survive without the South. “You dare not make war on cotton,” Hammond declared. “Cotton is king.”

first appeared: 2/24/2002

Hitchcock Woods in Aiken (pop. 25,337) is the largest urban forest in the country, established in 1939. Through the years, various donations have brought it to nearly 2,000 acres.

first appeared: 2/17/2002

Low Country folklore claims Ol’ Plat-Eye, a coastal bogeyman, can be kept away with blue paint. Early plantations near the Pee Dee River grew indigo, which provided the blue dye used in the paint still seen around doors and windows in the area.

first appeared: 2/10/2002

Allendale County is South Carolina’s youngest. It was formed in 1919 from parts of Barnwell and Hampton counties.

first appeared: 2/3/2002

Originally built in 1859, Hunting Island lighthouse is the only South Carolina lighthouse open to the public. The lighthouse’s unique construction (iron plates bolted around a brick structure) allows it to be disassembled and moved when erosion threatens.

first appeared: 1/27/2002

The South Carolina Cotton Trail traces the influence of cotton on the rural South. Composed of five towns, the trail begins in Bishopville (pop. 3,670) in Lee County, the state’s largest cotton producing county, and continues through Bennettsville, Cheraw, Society Hill, and Hartsville.

first appeared: 1/20/2002

English Capt. William Hilton explored the Carolina coast in 1663. Upon observing an area of high bluffs and headlands, he named it Hilton Head (pop. 23,694).

first appeared: 1/13/2002

Sullivan’s Island (pop. 1,911) inspired The Gold Bug, Edgar Allan Poe’s tale of buried treasure. The author was stationed at nearby Fort Moultrie in 1827.

first appeared: 1/6/2002

Built in 1909, Campbell’s Covered Bridge near Tigerville (pop. 231) is the state’s only remaining covered bridge.

first appeared: 12/30/2001

Hopsewee Plantation in Georgetown (pop. 8,950), named for Chief Hops of the Sewee tribe, was the birthplace of Thomas Lynch Jr., youngest signer of the Declaration of Independence.

first appeared: 12/23/2001

A husband-hollering contest is one of the popular events at the Golden Leaf Festival held in Mullins (pop. 5,029) each September. For a $100 grand prize, women demonstrate the call they use to get their husband’s attention, judged on clarity and loudness.

first appeared: 12/16/2001

McCormick County was formed in 1916 out of parts of Abbeville, Greenwood, and Edgefield counties.

first appeared: 12/9/2001

English author William Somerset Maugham lived on Bonny Hall Plantation in Yemassee (pop. 807) during World War II. There, he wrote The Razor’s Edge, his only novel in which most of the characters are American.

first appeared: 12/2/2001

While Charleston was occupied by the British in 1782, the state Legislature convened in the town of Jacksonboro in Colleton County.

first appeared: 11/25/2001

Completed in 1820, Poinsett Bridge in Greenville County is the oldest bridge in the state.

first appeared: 11/18/2001

Dr. Joseph Goldstein, reared in Kingstree (pop. 3,496), was awarded the 1985 Nobel Prize with Dr. Michael Brown for their research on cholesterol and heart disease.

first appeared: 11/11/2001

Born in Pickens County in 1888, professional baseball’s “Shoeless” Joe Jackson earned his nickname at age 18. After getting new spikes, his feet hurt so badly that he played the game in his stocking feet.

first appeared: 11/4/2001

Religious leader and politician Henry McNeal Turner, born in Newberry (pop. 10,580) in 1834, was the first bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church.

first appeared: 10/28/2001

Opened in 1934, Cheraw State Park in Chesterfield County is South Carolina’s oldest state park.

first appeared: 10/21/2001

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