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Currently the site of a 325-acre park, Old Dorchester State Park offers visitors a glimpse into South Carolina's Colonial past. The park boasts one of the most well-preserved oyster-shell tabby forts in the country, St. George's Bell Tower, log shipping wharves, burial sites and cemeteries, as well as on-going archaeological digs that are still ...
This is a List of National Historic Landmarks in South Carolina, United States. The United States' National Historic Landmark (NHL) program is operated under the auspices of the National Park Service , and recognizes buildings, sites, structures, districts, and objects according to a list of criteria of national significance. [ 1 ]
The retired 75-year-old Hollywood set painter who worked on movies like "Ocean's Eleven" and TV shows like "Star Trek" has been painting watercolor cityscapes of Altadena for the past 40 years ...
During the last year and a half of the war, nearly a thousand German prisoners of war were interned there. [5] [6] Following deactivation of the base on July 31, 1945, the government sold 7,000 of its 19,000 acres to the state of South Carolina for use as a park, which opened in 1949.
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Historic Camden Revolutionary War Site is a national historic district and open-air museum located in Camden, Kershaw County, South Carolina, United States. Roughly 40 minutes away from Columbia, the state capitol, it is one of the state's largest tourist attractions. The 107-acre site is also known as Historic Camden Revolutionary War ...
Wade Hampton I (1752–1835) was a lieutenant colonel in the American Revolutionary War, brigadier general in the War of 1812, a congressman, and a wealthy planter.When he died in 1835, he was considered one of the wealthiest men in America [3] with plantations in Mississippi, Louisiana, and South Carolina; he was the wealthiest planter in the Southern United States.
The War of 1812 is among the lesser celebrated of the nation’s victories, perhaps because the British marched into Washington, D.C., and burned the White House.