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The Waxhaws is an area of vague borders in the lower South Carolina Piedmont. It was named for the Waxhaws,…

(May 29, 1780). The Battle of the Waxhaws, also known as Buford’s Massacre, was one of several incidents in the…

Ornithologist. Wayne was born in Blackville on January 1, 1863, where his parents, Daniel Gabriel Wayne and Harriott Ward, had…

Wayside hospitals were formed across South Carolina during the Civil War as means to care for sick and wounded Confederate…

(Spartanburg County; 2020 pop. 2,774). Located in west-central Spartanburg County between the North and Middle Tyger Rivers, Wellford was once…

Author. Wells was born in Charleston, the daughter of Scottish immigrants Robert Wells and Mary Rowand. Her father was a…

Settlers of Welsh descent played an important role in settling the South Carolina backcountry in the 1730s and 1740s. Many…

Poet, educator. Born in Lynn, Massachusetts, on June 3, 1958, Wentworth is the daughter of John Heath and Mary Tully.…

(Lexington County; 2020 pop. 18,109). Although never home to textile operations, Columbia’s western suburbs were influenced by industrial activity throughout…

Created in 1966 at the urging of young reformers in the General Assembly, the Committee to Make a Study of…

Governor, diplomat. Born in Camden on August 27, 1922, to Shelton J. West and Mattie Ratterree West, West was reared…

Governor. Nothing is known of the birth and parentage of Joseph West, who commanded the fleet that brought the first…

(Oconee County; 2020 pop. 2,598). Founded in 1874, Westminster was a child of the railroad. The Atlanta and Charlotte Railroad…

Soldier. Westmoreland was born in Saxon on March 26, 1914, the son of James Ripley Westmoreland and Eugenia Talley Childs.…

Carolina colonists learned of this powerful Native American Savannah River nation soon after their arrival. Most lowcountry Indians feared the…

Architect, engineer. W. B. Smith Whaley was born on May 24, 1866, in Charleston, the son of William Baynard Whaley,…

One of the two major political parties in the United States from approximately 1834 to 1856, the Whig Party had…

Educator, legislator. Whipper was born in Charleston on June 6, 1928, the daughter of Joseph Simmons and Sarah Marie Washington.…

Legislator. Whipper was one of the most influential African American politicians in South Carolina’s Reconstruction government. He was born free…

White lightning, a white whiskey made surreptitiously and illegally, was once produced in great quantities in South Carolina. It got…