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South Carolina was named to honor King Charles I (Carolus is Latin for Charles).
The state flag of South Carolina was officially adopted in 1861. It has a white crescent and a white palmetto tree on a blue ground. Three white crescents (on a blue background) were first used on a South Carolina banner protesting the Stamp Act in 1765. In 1775, Colonel William Moultrie designed a banner for South Carolina troops; it had a white crescent on a blue field. When South Carolina seceded from the Union, the palmetto tree was added to the flag. The palmetto tree was chosen because this tree had helped South Carolinians defeat the British in a battle at Sullivan's Island (during the Revolutionary War). The South Carolinians built a fort out of palmetto wood, and when the British fired cannonballs at the fort, instead of knocking the fort down, the soft palmetto wood just absorbed the cannonballs.
10 Largest cities in South Carolina (2003): Columbia, 117,357; Charleston, 101,024; North Charleston, 81,577; Rock Hill, 56,114; Greenville, 55,926; Mount Pleasant, 54,788; Sumter, 39,790; Spartanburg, 38,718; Hilton Head Island, 34,407; Summerville, 31,734
Number of counties in South Carolina : 46
Largest county in South Carolina by population: Greenville, 401,174 (2004)
Largest county in South Carolina by area: Horry, 1,134 sq mi.
South Carolina State Parks & Beaches: 47 (80,000+ ac.)
South Carolina Land Area: 32,020 sq mi. (82,931 sq km) (40th)
South Carolina Geographic Center: In Richland Co., 13 mi. SE of Columbia
South Carolina Population: (2004 est) 4,198,068 (#26)
Following exploration of the coast in 1521 by Francisco de Gordillo, the Spanish tried unsuccessfully to establish a colony near present-day Georgetown in 1526, and the French also failed to colonize Parris Island near Fort Royal in 1562. The first English settlement was made in 1670 at Albemarle Point on the Ashley River, but poor conditions drove the settlers to the site of Charleston (originally called Charles Town).
South Carolina, officially separated from North Carolina in 1729, was
the scene of extensive military action during the Revolution and again
during the Civil War. The Civil War began in 1861 as South Carolina
troops fired on federal Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor, and the state
was the first to secede from the Union.
Points of interest include Fort Sumter National Monument, Fort Moultrie, Fort Johnson, and aircraft carrier USS Yorktown in Charleston Harbor; the Middleton, Magnolia, and Cypress Gardens in Charleston; Cowpens National Battlefield; the Hilton Head resorts; and the Riverbanks Zoo and Botanical Garden in Columbia.
Once primarily agricultural, South Carolina today has many large
textile and other mills that produce several times the output of its
farms in cash value. Farms have become fewer but larger in recent years.
South Carolina ranks third in peach production; it ranks fourth in
overall tobacco production. The only commercial tea plantation in
America is 20 mi south of Charleston on Wadmalaw Island.
South Carolina Agriculture: Nursery and greenhouse products, watermelons, peanuts, broilers and turkeys, and cattle and calves.
South Carolina Industry: Textiles, asbestos, wood, pulp, steel products, chemicals, machinery, and apparel.
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