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Updates on the events, exhibits, archives and staff of the South Carolina Historical Society.
Thomas Pinckney was the youngest son of Eliza Lucas and Charles Pinckney. Born in 1750, he was placed in school …
Continue ReadingOn October 7, 1780, Patriot militias consisting of residents of the Carolina Backcountry and the Appalachian Mountain range, called the Overmountain …
Continue ReadingOn September 3, 1963, Millicent Brown, a tenth grader, and Jackie Ford, an eighth grader, walked into Rivers High School …
Continue ReadingArchibald Grimke, born an enslaved child at Cane Acre plantation, would grow up to attend Harvard Law School, become a …
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