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Poet, novelist, civic leader. Pinckney played a key role in the literary revival that swept through the South after World War I
Bret Lott is the bestselling author of fourteen books and professor of English at the College of Charleston
David du Bose Gaillard was a U.S. Army engineer instrumental in the construction of the Panama Canal.
The origin of the name of Darlington County is uncertain, but it may have been named for Darlington, England.
Sumter County and its county seat, the city of Sumter, were named for Revolutionary War general Thomas Sumter (1734-1832), a resident of the area.
Lexington County and its county seat, the town of Lexington, were named for the battle of Lexington, Massachusetts, the first battle of the American Revolution.
Both Beaufort County and its county seat Beaufort were named for Henry Somerset, Duke of Beaufort (1684-1714), one of the Lords Proprietors of Carolina.
The Columbian Mammoth (Mammuthus columbi) was designated as the official State Fossil by Act Number 177 of 2014. The Columbian mammoth was named after Christopher Columbus. The discovery of fossilized mammoth teeth in a South Carolina swamp in 1725 was credited as the first scientific identification of a North American vertebrate fossil.
(noun) - a person who has been released from slavery
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