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Updates on the events, exhibits, archives and staff of the South Carolina Historical Society.
Mason Locke Weems was born in Maryland in 1759. In 1784, he was ordained a minister by the Archbishop of …
Continue ReadingOn April 5, 1839, Robert Smalls, Civil War hero, businessman, and political figure, was born in Beaufort, South Carolina. He …
Continue ReadingOn March 10, 1984, Wil Lou Gray passed away in Columbia. She was one hundred years’ old and dedicated her …
Continue ReadingIn 1870, Congress ratified the Fifteenth Amendment, which prohibited the denial of the right to vote based on “race, color, …
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