South Carolina Baptist State ConventionThe historical significance of the South Carolina Baptist State Convention in the formation of the Southern Baptist Convention and other state conventions should not be ignored. Major architects of Baptist life in America—Oliver Hart, Richard Furman, Basil Manly, and William Bullein Johnson, among others—did their creative work in South Carolina.
South Carolina Department of EducationThe South Carolina Department of Education is the administrative arm of the State Board of Education. The department promulgates and…
South Carolina Lunatic Asylum / State HospitalThe South Carolina Lunatic Asylum, located in Columbia, was established by the General Assembly in 1821. It did not open,…
South Carolina State LibraryAn independent state agency on Senate Street in Columbia, the South Carolina State Library assists libraries throughout the state in…
South Carolina State MuseumSouth Carolina’s multidisciplinary State Museum opened on October 29, 1988, in the renovated Mount Vernon Mill at 301 Gervais Street…
South Carolina State UniversityThe institution was founded in 1896 in Orangeburg as the Colored Normal, Industrial, Agricultural and Mechanical College of South Carolina.…
South Caroliniana LibraryThe South Caroliniana Library building was completed in 1840 as the central library building for South Carolina College (later the…
Southern Aviation SchoolThe Southern Aviation School in Camden, founded in November 1940 by Frank W. Hulse and Ike F. Jones of Augusta,…
Spence, Floyd DavidsonLegislator, congressman. Spence was born in Columbia on April 9, 1928, the son of J. W. and Addie Jane Spence…
Spratt, John McKee, Jr.Congressman, lawyer. Spratt was born on November 1, 1942, in Charlotte, North Carolina, the son of John Spratt and Jane…
Springdale(Lexington County; 2020 pop. 2,732). One of the youngest towns in the Midlands, until World War II this was a…
Springs IndustriesSprings Industries, a cotton textile company, was founded in 1887 by Samuel Elliott White of Fort Mill. Originally named Fort…
Springs, Elliott WhiteBusinessman, aviator, author. Springs was born in Lancaster on July 31, 1896, the son of Leroy Springs, a wealthy textile…
Springs, LeroyMerchant, entrepreneur, manufacturer. Springs was born in Fort Mill on November 12, 1861, the seventh of eight children of Andrew…
St. James Goose Creek ParishA long, narrow rectangle extending northwestward from the Cooper River through modern Charleston, Berkeley, and Orangeburg Counties, St. James Goose…
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. Matthew's ParishComprising the southern and eastern portions of modern Calhoun and Orangeburg Counties, St. Matthew’s Parish was established on April 12,…
Stackhouse, Eunice Temple FordEducator, clubwoman. Stackhouse was born at Blenheim in Marlboro County on December 14, 1885, to the Baptist minister Rufus Ford…
Staley, Dawn MichelleStaley’s arrival would mark a dramatic change in the fortunes of the Gamecocks women’s basketball program.
State FairThe South Carolina State Fair, formally the State Agricultural and Mechanical Society of South Carolina, was established in 1869 “to…
