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Americans withstood an assault on Fort Moultrie in Charleston Harbor in 1776 when British cannon balls bounced off the fort’s walls made of spongy palmetto logs and sandbags.

first appeared: 2/1/2004

The state advertised itself as “The Iodine State” on license plates in the 1930s, celebrating the healthful, high iodine content in its fruits and vegetables.

first appeared: 1/25/2004

The largest gingko farm in the world is in Sumter (pop. 39,643). The gingko is a handsome tree with fan-shaped leaves and yellow fruit.

first appeared: 1/18/2004

The worst storm in this state was Hurricane Hugo, which hit on Sept. 21, 1989. It killed 26 people in the state and caused up to $5 billion in damage statewide, $9 billion total.

first appeared: 1/11/2004

Sticky seeds from a tree known as the strangler fig often find their way into the state’s official tree, the palmetto, through bird droppings. The fig then sends down aerial roots, which take hold in the earth and eventually chokes out the host palmetto.

first appeared: 1/4/2004

Due West (pop. 1,209) took its name from a trading post established by a man named DeWitt.

first appeared: 12/28/2003

Larry Doby, the first African-American baseball player in the American League, was born in 1923 in Camden (pop. 6,682). He joined the Cleveland Indians in 1947, soon after Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier with the Brooklyn Dodgers.

first appeared: 12/21/2003

Established in 1681, Boone Hall Plantation in Mount Pleasant (pop. 47,609) is one of America’s oldest working plantations. The original crops of rice and cotton have been supplanted by peaches, strawberries, tomatoes and pumpkins.

first appeared: 12/14/2003

The Big Apple swing dance originated in 1937 at the Big Apple nightclub in Columbia and soon swept the nation off its feet.

first appeared: 12/7/2003

In 2000, the state adopted an official tapestry, “From the Mountains to the Sea,” which depicts several state symbols.

first appeared: 11/30/2003

The state’s least populated county is McCormick County (pop. 9,958).

first appeared: 11/23/2003

In Sumter (pop. 39,643), 25 varieties of Japanese irises dazzle at the 150-acre Iris Gardens, believed to be the nation’s largest Japanese iris garden.

first appeared: 11/16/2003

Jason Fulmer, 26, who teaches third grade at Redcliffe Elementary in Aiken (pop. 25,337), is the state’s 2003 Teacher of the Year.

first appeared: 11/9/2003

A pioneering educator, Wil Lou Gray conducted one of the nation’s first night schools for adults in 1915 in Laurens (pop. 9,916).

first appeared: 11/2/2003

In 1953, Mamie “Peanut” Johnson pitched professional baseball on a men’s team for the Indianapolis Clowns and learned to throw a curve ball from future Hall of Famer Satchel Paige. Johnson was born in 1935 in Ridgeway (pop. 328).

first appeared: 10/26/2003

The 1823 Williamsburg County Courthouse in Kingstree (pop. 3,496) was designed by Robert Mills, the first professionally trained architect born in America. Mills was born in 1781 in Charleston.

first appeared: 10/19/2003

The world’s largest surviving stand of tupelo gum and bald cypress trees thrives at the 11,000-acre Francis Beidler Forest near Harleyville (pop. 594).

first appeared: 10/12/2003

In 1863, Henry McNeal Turner became the first African-American chaplain in the U.S. Army. He grew up near Abbeville (pop. 5,842).

first appeared: 10/5/2003

Sen. Strom Thurmond served a record 48 years, first as a Democrat and then a Republican. He was born in 1902 in Edgefield (pop. 4,449) and died in June at age 100.

first appeared: 9/28/2003

At 26, Edward Rutledge of Charleston was the youngest signer of the Declaration of Independence.

first appeared: 9/21/2003

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