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Fountain Inn (pop.4,388) takes its name from the old inn with a fountain once popular with travelers. Artist Art Fraham, who brought life to the man on the Quaker Oats oatmeal box and the Coppertone Suntan Lotion girl, lived there for 20 years.

first appeared: 1/7/2001

Kings Mountain National Military Park, near Blacksburg, marks the site of a Revolutionary War battle crucial to colonial victory, because it kept the Appalachians under colonial control.

first appeared: 12/31/2000

South Carolina's smallest county is McCormick (pop. 9,300) at 360 square miles, while the largest county is Horry (pop. 174,400) with 1,134 square miles.

first appeared: 12/24/2000

Elizabeth Timothy, of Charleston (pop. 68,600), was the first female newspaper publisher in the United States. She took over the South Carolina Gazette after her husband died in December 1738.

first appeared: 12/17/2000

Every spring, St. George (pop. 2,077) hosts the World Grits Festival—a celebration of this Southern staple. Contestants compete in grits grinding, eating, and best recipes.

first appeared: 12/10/2000

The first public museum in the United States, the Charleston Museum in Charleston, was founded in 1773 and is still operating today.

first appeared: 12/3/2000

During the Revolutionary War, the walls of the American fort on Sullivans Island were made of spongy Palmetto logs. This protected the fort because the British cannonballs bounced off the logs.

first appeared: 11/26/2000

The whole town of Pendleton (pop. 3,314) is on the National Register of Historic Places—one of America's largest such districts. Cherokee Indians originally occupied the land until September 1776, when the South Carolina militia took it over.

first appeared: 11/19/2000

Horses are ranked No. 3 on the state's commodities list. Camden (pop. 6,330) and Aiken (pop. 22,834) are centers for training racehorses that compete on racetracks around the country.

first appeared: 11/12/2000

Dizzy Gillespie, a renowned jazz trumpeter, composer, and bandleader, was born Oct. 21, 1917, in Cheraw (pop. 5,150). He helped develop a type of jazz known as bebop or bop.

first appeared: 11/5/2000

Abbeville (pop. 5,350) is known as the “Birthplace and Deathbed of the Confederacy” because it was the setting for both the first meeting calling for secession from the Union and Confederate president Jefferson Davis’ last war council.

first appeared: 10/22/2000

Althea Gibson, who was born in Silver on Aug. 25, 1927, was the first black person to win a major tennis title. In 1956, she won the Wimbledon doubles, the French Open singles and doubles, and the Italian Open singles. Gibson also won the Wimbledon singles and doubles and the U.S. Open singles in 1957-58.

first appeared: 10/8/2000

Campbell’s Covered Bridge in Gowensville is the only remaining covered bridge in South Carolina. It was built in 1909 and restored in both 1964 and 1990.

first appeared: 9/24/2000

No, it’s not the Charleston. South Carolina’s state dance is the Shag, designated in 1984.

first appeared: 9/10/2000

Charleston was the first city in the nation to have a chamber of commerce. It was established in 1775.

first appeared: 8/27/2000

A noble Catawba Indian named King Haiglar is known as the “Patron Saint of Camden” for befriending early settlers. He now reigns over Camden as a life-sized weather vane on the tower of what is now a department store.

first appeared: 8/13/2000

Does Irmo have its own version of the Loch Ness Monster? The so-called Loch Murray Monster was described in The Independent News in 1980 as “a cross between a snake and something prehistoric.” Many residents claim to have seen the creature.

first appeared: 7/30/2000

The Edisto River in South Carolina is the longest free-flowing blackwater river in the country. Blackwater describes both the color of the water and its peaceful flow.

first appeared: 7/16/2000

BILL VOISELLE, NATIONAL League pitcher of the year in 1944, wore the name of his hometown on his uniform-96. The town of Ninety Six, S.C., was named by traders in the 1700s in a mistaken belief it was that many miles to the Cherokee village of Keowee.

first appeared: 7/2/2000

The Charleston (S.C.) Tea Plantation produces the only commercially grown tea in North America. It is sold under the name American Classic Tea.

first appeared: 6/18/2000

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