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—In 1973, lawyer and civil rights activist Marian Wright Edelman founded the Children’s Defense Fund, the nation’s leading advocacy group for children. Born in 1939 in Bennettsville (pop. 9,425), Edelman received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2000.

first appeared: 4/22/2007

—Established in 1725, the wooden Pon Pon Chapel of Ease in Colleton County (pop. 38,264) was replaced by a brick chapel in 1754, which burned, but whose ruins have been preserved.

first appeared: 4/8/2007

—Charles Towne Landing State Historic Site in Charleston, the site of the first permanent European colony in the Carolinas in 1670, reopened in August after a $19 million overhaul. The 664-acre park includes a museum and visitors center with interactive displays and walking trails.

first appeared: 3/25/2007

—Called “the ship that wouldn’t die,” the World War II destroyer USS Laffey participated in the D-Day landing in Europe and maneuvers in the Pacific where it was hit by at least five Japanese kamikazes within about an hour—and earned its nickname. The preserved ship is berthed at Patriots Point Naval and Maritime Museum in Mount Pleasant (pop. 47,609).

first appeared: 3/11/2007

—Construction on the state’s third national cemetery is scheduled to begin in the summer of 2008 at Fort Jackson, a U.S. Army base in Columbia. The 600-acre veterans cemetery is expected to cost about $20 million.

first appeared: 2/27/2007

—Poet Marjory Heath Wentworth of Mount Pleasant (pop. 47,609) was appointed state poet laureate in 2003. Her books of poetry include Nightjars and What the Water Gives Me.

first appeared: 2/11/2007

—In 1908, Honea Path (pop. 3,504) had the distinction of being one of the smallest towns in the United States to build a Carnegie Library. The Jennie Erwin Library remains in use.

first appeared: 1/28/2007

The only site where the Schweinitz’s sunflower, a rare and endangered species, is protected is Rock Hill Blackjacks Heritage Preserve in Rock Hill (pop. 49,765).

first appeared: 1/14/2007

—In her sixth decade in show business as a singer and actress, Eartha Kitt still is known for her distinctive purring voice in her role as Catwoman in the 1960s Batman series. Kitt was born in 1927 in North (pop. 813).

first appeared: 12/17/2006

—After being fired in 1956 from her teaching job for being a member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Charleston-born Septima Clark helped establish “citizenship schools” throughout the South. The schools taught African-Americans to read and write so they could pass literacy tests and become eligible to vote.

first appeared: 12/3/2006

—Founded in the 1920s, Young Pecan Co. in Florence (pop. 30,248) is the nation’s largest pecan sheller, supplying nuts to major food manufacturers. The company’s retail stores are tasty places offering roasted, spiced and chocolate-covered pecans.

first appeared: 11/19/2006

—Nuisances between neighbors, such as barking dogs and weedy yards, are handled in Livability Court in Charleston, a city that prides itself on manners and civility. The court focuses on problem solving rather than punishment.

first appeared: 11/5/2006

—Frogmore stew, a one-pot boiled meal that originated in Beaufort (pop. 12,950), consists mainly of smoked beef sausage, corn on the cob, crab, shrimp and seafood seasoning. The traditional way to serve it is dumped on newspapers for easy cleanup.

first appeared: 10/22/2006

—A 32.5-foot-tall sand castle was built in June in Myrtle Beach (pop. 22,759). Complete with spires and gargoyles, the castle was 60 feet wide at its base. Team Sandtastic, of Sarasota, Fla., was the architect and builder.

first appeared: 10/8/2006

Alan Greenspan’s successor as chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, Ben Bernanke, was raised in Dillon (pop. 6,316). Always studious, Bernanke won the state spelling bee in sixth grade, but lost in the national competition when he misspelled “edelweiss.”

first appeared: 9/24/2006

Jasper Johns, one of the most significant and successful American artists of the 20th century, was born in 1930 in Georgia, but was raised in Allendale (pop. 4,052). He is most widely known for his paintings of maps, flags and targets.

first appeared: 9/10/2006

Established in 1681, the Circular Congregational Church in Charleston is home to one of the oldest continuously worshipping congregations in the South. The Circular Church Graveyard is the city's oldest burial ground with monuments dating from the 1690s.

first appeared: 8/27/2006

The nation's first green, or natural, cemetery is Ramsey Creek Preserve in Westminster (pop. 2,743), where embalming fluids and vaults are forbidden. Burials are in biodegradable caskets and graves are marked in natural ways with a tree, shrub or stone.

first appeared: 8/13/2006

An undeveloped barrier island stretching for three miles, Capers Island is a haven for many forms of wildlife, including loggerhead sea turtles, alligators, ospreys and herons that thrive in the delicate salt marsh ecosystem.

first appeared: 7/30/2006

In 1886, the International Congress of Physicians in Paris declared pine-scented Summerville (pop. 27,752) one of the world's healthiest places for people with lung disorders. The endorsement breathed life into the town as a resort community.

first appeared: 7/16/2006

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