St. James Santee ParishThe parish of St. James Santee was established on April 9, 1706, and included the northeastern portions of modern Berkeley…
St. John's Berkeley ParishOne of the ten original parishes created by the Church Act of 1706, the parish of St. John’s Berkeley stretched…
St. John's Colleton ParishPreviously a part of St. Paul’s Parish, St. John’s Colleton Parish was established by the South Carolina Commons House of…
St. Luke's ParishThe South Carolina Commons House of Assembly passed an act creating St. Luke’s Parish from St. Helena’s Parish on May…
St. Mark's ParishSouth Carolina’s first backcountry parish and by far its largest in land area, St. Mark’s was established on May 21,…
St. Matthew's ParishComprising the southern and eastern portions of modern Calhoun and Orangeburg Counties, St. Matthew’s Parish was established on April 12,…
St. Michael's ParishOn June 14, 1751, the South Carolina Commons House of Assembly passed an act dividing the city of Charleston into…
St. Paul's ParishSt. Paul’s Parish was one of the original ten parishes created in South Carolina by the Church Act of 1706.…
St. Peter's ParishIn 1747 the South Carolina Commons House of Assembly established St. Peter’s Parish, bounded on the west by the Savannah…
St. Philip's ParishSt. Philip’s was one of the ten original parishes created by the Church Act of 1706. The parish consisted of…
St. Stephen's ParishEstablished on May 11, 1754, St. Stephen’s Parish was located on the south side of the Santee River in modern…
St. Thomas and St. Denis ParishLocated on the peninsula formed by the Cooper and Wando Rivers in modern Berkeley County, St. Thomas and St. Denis…
State ParksAs of 2004, South Carolina’s system of state parks consisted of forty-six properties totaling more than eighty thousand acres of…
StateburgThe name of this town, located in western Sumter County in the High Hills of Santee, reflects Stateburg’s raison d’être.…
Striped bassState fish. The striped bass, or ocean rockfish (Morone saxatilis), became the official state fish in legislation signed by Governor…
Stumphouse Mountain TunnelThe Stumphouse Mountain Tunnel is an unfinished nineteenth-century railroad tunnel located near Walhalla. The variation of the name “Stump House”…
Sugarloaf Mountain(Chesterfield County). Sugarloaf Mountain is an erosional remnant located in the Sand Hills State Forest within the upper coastal plain…
Sumter County(665 sq. miles; 2020 pop. 106,360). Located in central South Carolina, Sumter County is bounded by the Santee and Wateree…
Sumter National ForestNamed for Thomas Sumter, famed partisan of the American Revolution, Sumter National Forest encompasses over 350,000 acres in the Piedmont…
Surfside Beach(Horry County; 2020 pop. 4,580). This popular resort town lies south of Myrtle Beach along South Carolina’s Grand Strand. The…
