Business and Industry

Simkins’s life embodied many of the ideals set forth by her parents. She proved herself as an independent leader and advocate for the black community.

In the 1920s Simons and Lapham were busy with commissions for new houses and restorations, including thirteen houses in the elite neighborhood called Yeaman’s Hall.

(Greenville County; 2020 pop. 25,272). Incorporated on August 13, 1901, Simpsonville began many decades earlier as a crossroads hamlet where…

Architect, engineer. Sirrine, an important industrial architect and engineer practicing in South Carolina, was born on December 9, 1872, in…

The Atlantic slave trade was one of the most important demographic, social, and economic events of the modern era. It…

Africans were imported in significant numbers from about the 1690s, and by 1715 the black population made up about sixty percent of the colony’s total population. This marked another distinctive feature of South Carolina, for it was the only colony in English North America where this proportion existed.

Merchant, politician, planter. Smith was born in South Carolina in 1717, the eldest child of the planter and politician Thomas…

Banker, governor. Smith was born in North Carolina on January 22, 1861, the son of Joseph Smith. After attending local…

Industrialist. Smyth was born on October 26, 1847, in Charleston, the son of the Reverend Thomas Smyth and Margaret M.…

This Hartsville-based international packaging manufacturer had its beginnings in the late nineteenth century, when Major James Lide Coker and his…

The South Carolina Chamber of Commerce is an association organized mainly to promote and lobby the interests of business. The…

The South Carolina Department of Commerce administers South Carolina’s economic development program. Created by the General Assembly in 1945 as…

Created by the General Assembly in 1967, the South Carolina Department of Parks, Recreation, and Tourism (SCPRT) is charged with…

The South Carolina Educational Television Network (SCETV) is a state agency providing educational, cultural, and historical programming to South Carolinians…

South Carolina Electric & Gas Company (SCE&G), primarily an energy firm, was formed by the merger of dozens of companies…

Held in Charleston from December 1, 1901, to June 20, 1902, the West Indian Exposition followed world’s fairs in other…

The South Carolina Manufacturers Alliance (SCMA), a powerful networking, information, and lobbying group for the state’s varied manufacturing industries, began…

The South Carolina Public Service Authority was established by the General Assembly in 1934 with the power to provide for…

In the early decades of the nineteenth century, Charleston sought to bolster its economy by attempting to attract trade from…

The South Carolina State Ports Authority is a state-owned enterprise established by the General Assembly in 1942 to create and…