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Updates on the events, exhibits, archives and staff of the South Carolina Historical Society.
July 23, 1744 On this side of the Atlantic, the War of Austrian Succession was called King George’s War and took …
Continue ReadingIn February 1722, Mark Catesby sailed for the Carolina colony. With funding from a group of Fellows of the Royal …
Continue ReadingIn August of 1669, three ships – the Carolina, the Port Royal, and the Albemarle- set sail from England for …
Continue ReadingOn August 31, 1885, DuBose Heyward was born in Charleston to Edwin Watkins Heyward and Jane Screven DuBose. Jane was …
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