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The great seal of South Carolina was first used on a document dated May 22, 1777. It was a double-sided,…

As sovereign political entities, all fifty states have adopted special symbols. In every state the first emblem was a seal,…

(2003 circulation: 114,442 daily and 148,820 Sunday). The State is a morning daily newspaper published weekdays and Sundays in the…

The name of this town, located in western Sumter County in the High Hills of Santee, reflects Stateburg’s raison d’être.…

The doctrine of states’ rights, a recurring theme of South Carolina political thought, is composed of two elements: a belief…

Novelist. Steadman was born in Statesboro, Georgia, on July 2, 1930, the son of Mark Sidney Steadman, Sr., an engineer…

Writer, educator. Max Steele was born in Greenville on March 30, 1922, the son of John M. Steele and Minnie…

Lieutenant governor, civic leader, author. “Nancy” Stevenson was born on June 8, 1928, in New Rochelle, New York, the daughter…

Lawyer, civil rights leader. Born in Charleston on December 28, 1853, to free black parents, George Gilchrist Stewart and Anna…

This minor cavalry raid through the South Carolina upstate occurred in the weeks following the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln and the flight of Confederate president Jefferson Davis and his cabinet from Richmond, Virginia.

Architect, author, historian, preservationist. Stoney is considered by many to be the quintessential Charlestonian. Born in Charleston on August 29,…

The Stono Rebellion was a violent albeit failed attempt by as many as one hundred slaves to reach St. Augustine…

Soldier, Medal of Honor recipient. This Anderson County native was the nation’s only African American from World War I to…

(Berkeley County). James Child, founder of Childsbury Town on the Cooper River in St. John’s Berkeley Parish, bequeathed an acre…

Initially, the ferry served to transport livestock, enslaved people, carriages, and other passengers across the Cooper River to and from the short-lived town of Childsbury, which surrounded Strawberry Chapel.

In the aftermath of World War I, with pressure to maintain profit margins in the face of increasing competition and…

Composer, writer, artist. Strickland was born in 1884 in Anderson, the only daughter of Charlton Hines Strickland, an insurance salesman,…

State fish. The striped bass, or ocean rockfish (Morone saxatilis), became the official state fish in legislation signed by Governor…

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.…