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The state's first cotton mill was built in 1789 by Frances Ramage, a planter's widow, on James Island, four years before Eli Whitney's invention of a machine to gin cotton.

first appeared: 1/2/2005

Estab-lished in the 1670s and open to the public since the 1860s, Magnolia Plantation in Charleston is billed as the nation’s oldest manmade public attraction.

first appeared: 12/19/2004

The spotted salamander was designated the official state amphibian in 1999.

first appeared: 12/5/2004

Middleton Place, an 18th-century plantation at Charleston, was the home of Henry Middleton, president of the First Continental Congress, which convened in 1774.

first appeared: 11/21/2004

Published in 1774, the South-Carolina Price-Current, the state’s earliest known business publication, listed prices for 168 items bought and sold in Charleston.

first appeared: 11/7/2004

On Aug. 31, 1886, an earthquake rocked Charleston, killing 110 people and damaging 90 percent of the town’s brick buildings and homes.

first appeared: 10/24/2004

Founded in 1770, the College of Charleston in Charleston is the state’s oldest institute of higher learning.

first appeared: 10/10/2004

Florena Budwin is believed to be the first woman buried in a national cemetery, Florence National Cemetery in Florence (pop. 30,248), in 1865. She disguised herself as a man to join the Union Army with her husband.

first appeared: 10/3/2004

In 1912, Sumter (pop. 39,643) became the first U.S. city to adopt a successful council-manager form of government. Sumter is run by a city manager and governed by several council members and a mayor.

first appeared: 9/19/2004

Chicken bog, a dish originating in the state’s coastal regions, is so-named because the chicken gets bogged down in rice.

first appeared: 9/12/2004

In the 1840s, the Georgetown (pop. 8,950) area produced half of the nation’s rice, a story engrained in The Rice Museum.

first appeared: 9/5/2004

George Washington slept at the Thomas Heyward home in May 1791 in Charleston. Heyward was one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence.

first appeared: 8/29/2004

The South Carolina Tobacco Museum in Mullins (pop. 5,029) was named the state’s official tobacco museum in April.

first appeared: 8/22/2004

The National Wild Turkey Federation in Edgefield (pop. 4,449) has worked since 1973 to conserve North America’s largest game bird.

first appeared: 8/15/2004

Built in 1761, St. Michael’s Episcopal Church is the oldest church in Charleston.

first appeared: 8/8/2004

Cotswold sheep and Dominique chickens are some of the rare farm-animal breeds at Historic Brattonsville, a living history village at McConnells (pop. 287).

first appeared: 8/1/2004

The father of gynecology, Dr. James Marion Sims, was born in 1813 in Lancaster County and established the Woman’s Hospital of the State of New York in the 1850s.

first appeared: 7/25/2004

The 22,200-acre Congaree National Park in Hopkins preserves the nation’s largest contiguous tract of old-growth bottomland hardwood forest.

first appeared: 7/18/2004

New York Yankees second baseman Bobby Richardson, born in 1935 in Sumter (pop. 39,643), was named the 1960 World Series’ most valuable player.

first appeared: 7/11/2004

Funerals for eight Confederate soldiers, who sank with the H.L. Hunley submarine after destroying a Union warship on Feb. 17, 1864, were held in April 2004 in Charleston. The sub was recovered in 2000.

first appeared: 6/27/2004

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