3+ day, 2+ hour ago   (465+ words) Jeff Brodie, chief engagement and content officer for South Carolina State Museum, explains the museum's layout amid a discussion of expansion/renovations plans during an Aiken Chamber of Commerce meeting Sept. 9. This illustration provides an aerial view of how South…...

4+ day, 4+ hour ago   (652+ words) The H.L. Hunley, a Confederate ship sits in a chemical bath in North Charleston. It was the first combat submarine to blow up a warship. CHARLESTON — More than a century underwater did little to erase one man’s final footprint. The sole…...

6+ day, 4+ hour ago   (744+ words) Long Point School stands in Mount Pleasant in 1955, after the U.S. Supreme Court’s Brown v. Board of Education ruling against segregated public schools. MOUNT PLEASANT — As South Carolina lawmakers butted heads this summer over a multi-billion dollar budget package delivered to…...

1+ week, 4+ hour ago   (778+ words) Pernessa Seele, founder and president of the Lincolnville Preservation and Historical Society, fears the new subdivisions town leaders have allowed to be built dilute her hometown's heritage as a 19th century historic African American town. LINCOLNVILLE — Driving through this old settlement…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (525+ words) Carl Borick’s book "Backcountry Resistance" is among two South Carolina books selected for the State Library's 2026 Great Reads from Great Places. "Backcountry Resistance: South Carolina's Militia and the Fight for American Independence" was selected as 2026 Great Read by SC State…...

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2+ week, 5+ day ago   (473+ words) Historian Keith Gourdin treated Mount Pleasant Rotarians to a healthy serving of the life and times of Francis Marion. Known for his leadership in fighting the British in the Revolutionary War, Brigadier General Francis Marion has become more myth than…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (460+ words) A bust of local legend General Francis Marion greets visitors at the entrance of the SC Room. FLORENCE — For visitors wanting to step a little closer to America’s Revolutionary War history, the Florence County Library is offering a look at…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (306+ words) In March 1783, Continental Army officers at Newburgh, New York, unpaid for months, began circulating a letter. Some wanted to march on Congress, or install George Washington as a military ruler, to force payment. When Washington learned of a meeting being…...

3+ week, 4+ hour ago   (1386+ words) Eric Poplin, senior archeologist at Brockington, describes the dig and process of revealing an anomaly on the property that was likely part of an early sewer system, Tuesday, July 28, 2026, in Charleston. CHARLESTON — Before construction begins on South Carolina’s first Four…...