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In 1934 white Methodists in the southern states who opposed the unification of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South and the…

The Southern Quarterly Review (SQR) originated in January 1842 in New Orleans but moved to Charleston later that year, where…

First envisioned in Atlanta, Georgia, by members of the Southern Textile Association (STA), the Southern Textile Exposition invited local textile…

Southern Wesleyan University (SWU) is a private Christian liberal arts institution located in the town of Central in Pickens County.…

An important cash crop widely grown in South Carolina, soybeans were first cultivated as a soil builder and animal fodder.…

On a monument at the tip of Parris Island, a tile plaque proclaims, “Aquí estuvo España” (“Here was Spain”). The…

Spanish moss (Tillandsia usneoides) is a gray treeborne epiphyte native to the coastal plain of the southeastern United States. As…

Organized in 1888 by the industrialist John H. Montgomery, the home builder W. C. Burnett, and other upcountry business leaders,…

(Spartanburg County; 2020 pop. 37,317). The town of Spartanburg was incorporated in 1831, its name originating from a local Revolutionary…

(811 sq. miles; 2020 pop. 326,205). Spartanburg County is located in the northwestern section of South Carolina in the foothills…

Located on South Spring Street in Spartanburg, the Spartanburg County Museum of Art was founded in 1907 with the acquisition…

Spartanburg Methodist College is a two-year institution related to the United Methodist Church and located on 110 acres in western…

The pellagra hospital in Spartanburg was the nation’s first facility dedicated to discovering the cause of that baffling and serious…

Monroe Kirklyndorf Spears was born in Darlington, South Carolina, and educated at the University of South Carolina, where he earned…

Legislator, congressman. Spence was born in Columbia on April 9, 1928, the son of J. W. and Addie Jane Spence…

Legislator, educator. Spencer was born in Charleston on October 23, 1850, the eldest son of James A. Spencer, a porter,…

Novelist, short story writer. Nicknamed “Mickey” by his Irish Catholic father, Spillane was born in Brooklyn, New York, on March…

South Carolina can boast a remarkably dynamic musical landscape. Gospel, bluegrass, blues, and string band all have a long history…

In the mid-1970s no one could have imagined staid, conservative Charleston welcoming an invasion by more than 150,000 people for…

The spotted salamander is a six-to-eight-inch-long cold-blooded amphibian marked by two rows of yellow or yellowish-orange spots on its black or steel-gray back. The animal ranges from southeastern Canada throughout the eastern United States and is found across South Carolina.