Upstate

Although removed from the fighting during the Civil War, Abbeville nevertheless played a noteworthy role in the conflict.

Robert Mills called Abbeville “the original seat of learning in the upper country,” and it quickly distinguished itself as the mother of some very famous Carolinians.

A staunch Democrat, from 1864 to 1866 Aiken represented Abbeville District in the S.C. House of Representatives. During Reconstruction, the link he had earlier made between southernism and agrarianism grew stronger.

Allen’s poetry combines contemporary philosophical concerns with a format more aligned with earlier poetic styles.

Allison received mainstream recognition with her first novel, Bastard Out of Carolina (1992), which in 1996 was adapted to a film directed by Anjelica Huston.

Incorporated as a city in 1882, Anderson became a center of the Piedmont’s late nineteenth-century industrial expansion.

Industrial development in Anderson County began in earnest in the decades following the Civil War, and gradually replaced agriculture as the foundation of the county economy.

The newspaper became the first in the state to publish daily on the Internet in 1995.

Anderson College began offering upper-level undergraduate classes in 1991 and in 1993 again awarded bachelor’s degrees. In 2006, the school officially changed its name to Anderson University. In 2013, Anderson's College of Visual and Performing Arts was renamed the South Carolina Schools of the Arts.

Anderson’s eclectic repertoire and engaging personality brought him national attention during the folk music revival of the early 1960s.

Ansel was the first person of German ancestry to occupy the governor’s chair in South Carolina.

One of several southern journalists whose “liberal” views on desegregation and civil rights attracted national attention and local scorn, Ashmore won a Pulitzer Prize for his editorials opposing Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus’s attempt to stop the integration of Little Rock’s Central High School in 1957.

Also known as Little Carpenter, he was an influential leader of the Cherokees in the mid-1700s.

Barrett wrote the scripts for some of Hollywood’s most successful film and television productions. Among his most popular films were The Greatest Story Ever Told, The Green Berets, and Smoky and the Bandit. His screenplay for the comedy The Cheyenne Social Club won a Writers Guild of America award in 1970. One of his most enduring works has been the film Shenandoah, whose star, James Stewart, became a good friend.

When captured, she refused to reveal the position of her husband’s company, and some accounts reported that the British beat her in retaliation.

Bass gained his greatest professional fame as one of the nation’s leading scholars of the American Revolution in South Carolina.

Bates had a desire to dance that persisted despite the loss of his leg. So, fitted with an artificial wooden limb—or “peg”—he adapted tap dancing steps to his own specifications.

Beacham and LeGrand began their partnership in 1920 by designing Greenville’s Salvation Army Hospital. In the decade that followed, they were commissioned to design some of the city’s most important buildings.

White, who had begun working at a local drive-in at the age of eleven, was an astute businessman, a showman of sorts.

The town was named in honor of Judge John Belton O’Neall, president of the Greenville and Columbia Railroad.