Historian and author Walter Edgar mines the riches of the South Carolina Encyclopedia to bring you South Carolina from A to Z. South Carolina from A to Z is a production of South Carolina Public Radio in partnership with the University of South Carolina Press and SC Humanities.
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“D” is for Duke’s mayonnaise. Eugenia Duke mixed her first batch of mayonnaise in her Greenville home sometime in the early twentieth century.
“C” is for Clemson (Pickens County; 2020 population 17,780).
“C” is for Clark, Septima Poinsette (1898-1987). Educator, civil rights activist.
“C” is for Clarendon County (607 square miles; 2020 population 33,415).
“C” is for Claflin University. Responding to the urgent need to educate former enslaved persons, northern Methodists established Claflin University in Orangeburg, South Carolina in 1869.
“S” is for South Carolina Commission on Government Restructuring. In March 1991 Governor Carroll Campbell appointed the thirty-eight member Commission on Government Restructuring to devise a blueprint for enhancing the powers of the state’s weak chief executive.
“S” is for South Carolina Coastal Conservation League. Established in 1989, the South Carolina Coastal Conservation League has been a leading voice in the campaign to protect and preserve the coastal plain of the state.
“S” is for South Carolina Christian Action Council. The South Carolina Christian Action Council is a statewide ecumenical agency embracing many of the state's major Christian denominations.
“S” is for South Carolina Chamber of Commerce. The South Carolina Chamber of Commerce is an association organized mainly to promote and lobby the interests of business.
“P” is for Port Royal Experiment. The Port Royal Experiment, also called the Sea Island Experiment, was an early humanitarian effort to prepare the former enslaved persons of the South Carolina Sea Islands for inclusion as free citizens in American public life.
“B” is for Bull, William, II (1710-1791). Lieutenant governor.
“B” is for Bull, William (1683-1755). Planter, lieutenant governor.
“B” is for Bryan, Hugh (1699-1753). Planter, evangelist.
“B” is for Brown Fellowship Society. The Brown Fellowship Society was established in 1790 by free persons of color in Charleston.
“S “is for Spillane, Frank Morrison (1918-2006). Author.
“S” is for Spencer, James Alexander (1850-1911). Legislator, educator.
“S” is for Spence, Floyd Davidson (1928-2001). Legislator, congressman.
“B” is for Bull, Stephen (died 1800). Soldier, legislator.
“B” is for Brown, William Melvin, Jr. (1934-1994). Manufacturer.
“B” is for Brown, Thomas (1750-1825). Soldier. Brown was among the most notorious loyalist commanders in the South during the Revolutionary War.
“B” is for Brown, Thomas (1750-1825). Soldier. Brown was among the most notorious loyalist commanders in the South during the Revolutionary War.
“S” is for Spartanburg Pellagra Hospital. The pellagra hospital in Spartanburg was the nation's first facility dedicated to discovering the cause of that baffling and serious disorder.
“S” is for Spartanburg Methodist College. The college traces its origins to the Textile Industrial Institute (TII), founded in 1911 by David English Camak then pastor of Duncan Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church, South in the Spartan Mill Village.
“S” is for Spartanburg County (811 square miles; 2020 population 328,000).
“S” is for Spartanburg (Spartanburg County; 2020 population 38,732).
