South Carolina: The Palmetto State

• Capital: Columbia
• Major City: Charleston
• Major Geographical Features
  • Blue Ridge Mountains
  • Piedmont (Mountains)
  • Savannah River
  • Broad River
  • Pee Dee River
  • Atlantic Ocean
• National Parks: Conagree National Park
• 1566: Settled by the Spanish
• 1670: Charles Town settlement established (presently Charleston)
• 1740: Oldest formal gardens established
• 1788: Became 8th state
• 1830: 1st US steam locomotive built for railroad use built in South Carolina
• 1840: 1st American library housed in a separate building at the University of South Carolina
• 1860: 1st state to secede from Union
• 1861: Battle of Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor begins Civil War
• Mottoes:
  • "Prepared in Mind and Resources"
  • "While I breathe, I hope"
• Name Meaning: Named for Charles I of England
• Myrtle Beach and Hilton Head Island are popular golf and beach resorts
• Products
  • Tobacco
  • Cotton
  • Peaches
    • South Carolina produces the second most number of peaches, behind California
• Columbia is sometimes considered the "Earthquake City"
• Famous People
  • Andrew Jackson