USS Yorktown: Historic aircraft carrier, located in Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina.
Popular Iconic South Carolina Foods That Require Clean Water
South Carolina is famous for the following foods:
Frogmore Stew
Oyster Roast
Collard Greens
Shrimp and Grits
Pimento Cheese
Hoppin' John
Fun Facts
The Carolina colony was established by British and it was split in 1729 into North and South Carolina as it was deemed to big to govern effectively. Carolina is named after King Charles I. Carolus is the Latin word for Charles.
The first opera performed in the United States, a comic ballad opera called Flora, opened in Charleston, South Carolina, in 1735.
The Charleston Tea Plantation, located on Wadmalaw Island, South Carolina, is the only working tea plantation in the United States.
Morgan Island in South Carolina houses the only colony of free-ranging rhesus monkeys in the United States. Morgan Island is also known as Monkey Island. There are about 3,500 monkeys in the colony.
The Charleston Museum in Charleston, South Carolina, is the first museum in America. It was founded in 1773 and opened to the public in 1824.
Johnston, South Carolina, is known as the Peach Capital of the World.
The largest Gingko farm in the world is located in Sumter, South Carolina.
The first battle of the Civil War took place at Fort Sumter, South Carolina.
On November 2, 1954, Strom Thurmond became the first US senator elected by write-in vote. Thurmond received 63.1% of the votes to win the election.
In South Carolina, a person must be 18 years old to legally play a pinball machine.
This page was last updated on July 31, 2022.
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