Charleston County

Clergyman, author. Stroyer was born and raised a slave in antebellum South Carolina. After emancipation, he authored an engrossing autobiographical…

Soldier, colonial official. Stuart was born on September 25, 1718, in Inverness, Scotland, the son of John and Christian Stuart.…

(Charleston County; 2020 pop. 1,938). Sullivan’s Island was discovered in 1666 by Captain Robert Sandford and named for Captain Florence…

The Battle of Sullivan’s Island was the first major patriot victory in the Revolutionary War. In February 1776, after British…

Portraitist. Sully was born on June 8 or 9, 1783, in Horncastle, Lincolnshire, England, to Matthew Sully and Sarah Chester,…

(Dorchester County; 2020 pop. 53,301). Summerville, the “Flower Town in the Pines,” was established as a summer refuge for plantation…

Soldier, congressman, U.S. senator. Sumter was born on August 14, 1734, in Hanover County, Virginia. His father, William, was a…

“Swamp Angel” was the nickname given to a 16,500-pound rifled Parrott cannon with an eight-inch bore that briefly shelled the…

At the start of each legislative day, the sergeant at arms places the sword in a cradle at the front of the president’s podium, where it rests whenever the Senate is in session. The ceremonial weapon is made of steel and gold and is thirty-nine inches long.

Educators. Between approximately 1816 and 1850, Madame Talvande’s Ladies Boarding School in Charleston educated the daughters of the elite families…

British soldier. Few other figures in South Carolina history have been labeled as villainous as Banastre Tarleton has. He was…

Like other southern states, South Carolina believed that a military education would instill education, discipline, character, and patriotic devotion in its young men.

Portrait painter. Born on April 5, 1716, in Chur, Switzerland, Theus immigrated to Orangeburg Township, Carolina, in 1735 with other…

Educator, governor. Father of South Carolina’s modern public school system and the only professional educator to serve as governor, Thompson…

Governor. Timmerman was born in Anderson on August 11, 1912, the son of George Bell Timmerman and Mary Vandiver Sullivan.…

Newspaper publisher. Little is known of Elizabeth Timothy’s origins and early life. Benjamin Franklin described her as “born and bred…

Newspaper printer. Timothy was born Louis Timothée, the son of a Huguenot who took refuge in Holland following the revocation…

Newspaper printer, patriot. Timothy was born in Holland to Louis and Elizabeth Timothée before they immigrated to Philadelphia in 1731…

Poet, essayist. Timrod was born on December 8, 1828, in Charleston, South Carolina, the only son of a bookbinder, William…

Promoter, publisher. Born in Appenzell, Switzerland, Tobler became that canton’s governor until he was removed from office in a power…