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1663 when King Charles II gave the land to eight noble men known as The Lords Proprietors. The province included both North Carolina and South Carolina.
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In 1670, the first permanent English settlement in South Carolina was established at Albemarle Point .
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1670, the estimated population in the colony was 200 people.
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In 1680, the colony moved to Charles Town (later Charleston).
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In 1680, the estimated population was 1200 people
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In 1690, the estimated population in South Carolina was 3900.
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.In 1691, the Colonial Proprietors of Carolina appointed a governor for the whole of Carolina and a deputy governor for the North of the colony.
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By the late 1700’s, African-American slaves represented the majority of the population in South Carolina, as the number of cotton plantations increased.
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In 1712 South Carolina becomes a separate Colony
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North and South Carolina became separate royal colonies in 1729.
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Two shields bearing the inscriptions "March 26" (the date in 1776 when South Carolina established its first independent government) and "July 4," respectively, hang from the tree. Under the oak are the words "Meliorem lapsa locavit" (Having fallen, it has set up a better one) and the year "1776.
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Date of Statehood: May 23, 1788
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In February 1852 William Burkhalter Dorn discovered the second richest vein of gold in SC history on the site of the present town of McCormick
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The Stump house Mountain Tunnel was started in 1856 by a railroad company and is bored for more than a mile into the granite heart of fabled Stump house Mountain.
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The coming of the Civil War in 1859 ended the work on the project. Some years ago, Clemson University made Blue Mold Cheese in the tunnel successfully for the first time in the South.
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first shots of the Civil War–the shellingof the federally heldFort Sumter by Confederate troops on April 12, 1861
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South Carolina became the first state to secede from the union in 1861
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After capturing Columbia on February 17, 1865, Union soldiers under General William Tecumseh Sherman burned and destroyed more than two-thirds of the city.
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Warehouses were also constructed and the first tobacco sale took place on August 28, 1895.
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The Lake City tobacco market was established in 1898, and has grown to become one of the two largest markets in South Carolina today.
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Campbell's Covered Bridge built in 1909, is the only remaining covered bridge in South Carolina
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. On November 2, 1954, former governor Strom Thurmond became the first person to be elected to the U.S. Senate as a write-in candidate, winning 63 percent of the vote. Carolina as senator for 47 years, five months and eight days
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The Board of Public Works in Gaffney built an elevated water storage tank in the shape of a peach in 1981.
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In 2000, the Confederate flag was removed from the dome on top of the State House and placed on the grounds near the Confederate Soldier Monument in response to a NAACP boycott of the state and protests over its legacy. More than 10 years later, the flag’s location continues to be the subject of ongoing controversy.
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govenor J.Yancey McGill the current govenor was eleced on June 18, 2014
