Lake City

Although the county’s economy has traditionally been based on agriculture, Florence was home to several industries as early as the 1890s.

Truck farming is the production of annual fruit and vegetable crops to be sold fresh. Truck farming began after the…

Three times in the history of South Carolina, tobacco has risen to the status of a major cash crop, and…

The second African American in space, McNair made his first flight in February 1984 aboard the space shuttle Challenger.