Seigler, Marie Samuella CromerIn a few months Seigler had created the Aiken County Girls’ Tomato Club, the first such group in the nation, and was attracting favorable attention from government and philanthropic groups.
Silver Bluff Baptist ChurchLocated near the South Carolina–Georgia state line, Silver Bluff Baptist Church is one of the oldest independent African American Christian congregations in the United States.
Sisters of Charity of Our Lady of MercyThe Catholic bishop John England founded the Sisters of Charity of Our Lady of Mercy in Charleston in 1829, using…
Smith, Gregory WhiteWriter, publisher, and Pulitzer Prize winner. Born in Ithaca, New York, in 1951, to William R. Smith, a hotel administrator,…
Textile IndustryFrom the late nineteenth century through most of the twentieth century, the textile industry dominated South Carolina manufacturing. It employed…
WatermelonsWatermelons (Citrullus lanatus) are members of the gourd family native to Africa. Both African slaves and European colonists were probably…
Woolsey, GamelPoet, novelist, memoirist. The exact year of Woolsey’s birth is not known–estimates vary from 1895 to 1900–but what is certain…
