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The Francis Marion National Forest is located north of Charleston, South Carolina. It is named for revolutionary war hero Francis Marion , who was known to the British as the Swamp Fox. It lies entirely within the Middle Atlantic coastal forests ecoregion . [ 3 ]
The Sumter National Forest is one of two forests in South Carolina that are managed together by the United States Forest Service, the other being the Francis Marion National Forest. The Sumter National Forest consists of 370,442 acres (1,499.13 km 2 ) which are divided into 3 distinct sections in western and central South Carolina.
The segment from Columbia to Sumter is a four-lane highway and US 76 is concurrent with US 378 from the intersection of Bull and Gervais near the University of South Carolina in Columbia all the way to Sumter. From Sumter, US 76 heads northeast to Florence. US 76 is the major road through Florence.
The University of South Carolina in Columbia is the largest university in the state, by enrollment. [1] Trident Technical College in North Charleston is the largest two-year college. [ 2 ] The oldest institution is the College of Charleston , founded in 1770 and chartered in 1785.
The university's physical plant includes eleven major buildings. In addition, the university constructed new student apartments on campus in 2006, known as The Villas. Francis Marion is also home to a two-story observatory, equipped with a 14-inch (360 mm) reflecting telescope, and a planetarium that offers public shows twice monthly.
USC Florence, a campus from 1957 until it became independent on July 1, 1970 as Francis Marion College (now Francis Marion University). USC Coastal Carolina, a previously independent two-year campus, joined the USC System in 1959 and remained until it became independent on July 1, 1993 as Coastal Carolina University.
The city features a statue of General Marion in the town square, and has a museum which includes many artifacts related to Francis Marion; the Marion High School mascot is the Swamp Fox. Francis Marion University is located nearby in Florence County, South Carolina. The Swamp Fox is a wooden roller coaster located in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.
Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1973. ISBN 0-87049-131-8. O'Shaughnessy, Andrew Jackson. The Men who Lost America: British Leadership, the American Revolution, and the Fate of the Empire (2014). Oller, John. The Swamp Fox: How Francis Marion Saved the American Revolution. Boston: Da Capo Press, 2016. ISBN 978-0-306-82457-9.