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Backed by over 400 years of his history history tory tradition and romance soft softspoken softBpoken spoken South SoutIl Carolina Carolma is still glam glamorous glamorous orous and appealing Consider tor for a amoment amoment moment that 90 per cent of the theI theSoutIl theSouth I SoutIl Farolinians CarolInians in the tIle armed armedI armedforces armedforces I forces when polled indicated inmcated their theirintentIon theirIntention intentIon of returning returnmg to their tIlelr na native native tive state when they got out of um umform milformi form I ' Though 'fhough fhough they tIley had seen the theworld , world they found nothing notillng to lure lurethem lurethem . them away from the Low cOlIDtry countrythe the Up country COlIDtry and the Piedmont Piedmontir cOlIDtryI I ir betweenSouth between betweenSouth South betweenI Carolina has had a glori glorious glorious I ous past But also it has a future future'It futureIt ' ' It endured terrible years of Recon Reconstruchon Reconstruction struchon following followrng the tIle War Between Betweenthe Betweenthe the States and it was not until the theturn theturn turn of the century that order came cameout cameout out of chaos Then South Carolma Carolmav Carolinawas v . as aware of Itself agam ready to tocope tocope cope with its problems in 111 the light lightof lightof of progress progressEach Each decade has seen improve improvement improvement ment and a further step toward the thefulfillment thefulfillment fulfillment of its destiny destmy South SoutIl Caro Carolina CaroUna lina is vibrant with WJth new life new newenergies newenergies energies and a will to progress progressWealth progressWealth Wealth has been introduced by tex texWe textile We and other industr es including includmg 1 % . ( n Old grist mill Anderson county countyplastics plastics and chemicals Soil rec reclamatJon reclamation lamatJon reforestation flood con control control trol hydro electric development - those are the tIle proJ projects ects of today todayAgnculture todayAgriculture Agnculture has been spurred to new newheights newheights heights by scientific aids Fields of ofcotton ofcotton cotton corn tobacco and peanuts peanutsstIll peanutsstill stIll remain rcmam but new crops have havebeen havebeen been added and more will come comeAnd comeAnd And new industries mdustnes too tor for SouthCarolma South ' Carolina Carolma is rich nch in natural re resources resources sources many of ot them as yet un undeveloped undeveloped undevelopedOpen developed developedOpen ' Open tor for business South Caro CaroIma Carolina Ima advertises and points pomts to ex excellent excellent cellent highways rail and water watertransportatIon watertransportation transportatIon and ma n routes of ofairplane ofairplane airplane travel Favored by a mlld mlldallrear mildall-year mildall year all-rear all rear - ; - climate chmate it beckons to those thosewho thosewho who want a home pleasure Jobs Jobsbusrness jobsbusiness busrness manulacturmg manufacturmg farming farmingand farmingand and a good WeMore life We lifeMore More than 80 years before Vir Virglma Virginia glma wa was > founded and over 90 years yearsbefore yearsbefore before the tIle Puritans reached Massa Massachusetts Massachusetts chusetts a white settlement settkment was wasfounded wasfounded founded on what is now Winyah bay . , . ' - > - 'V V " ' KANSOME RANSOME JILLIAlS J \ MtLLIAMS \\ILLIA\lS ILLIA lS MtLLIAMSGovernor ILLIAlSGovernor ) \ Governor ot o ( South Carolina Carolinain . in the Low country It was the ill illfated illfated fated Spanish settlement ot of San SanMiguel SanMiguel Miguel de GualdapeOther Gualdape GualdapeOther Other Spaniards SpaDlards came De Soto Sotoand Sotoand and Juan Pardo to explore the inte mtenor 1"101 1101 " " about the tIle Savannah river nver Com Competmg Cornpetmg petmg with the Spaniards were the theFrench theFrench French who in m 156 1562 ! briefly bnefly settled settleda a body of Huguenots at Port Royal RoyalNone RoyalNone None ot these ventures endured enduredhowever enduredhowever however and it was left to the theEngl theEngi Engl sh to establish establlsh permanent set settlements settiements settiementsCharles tlements tlementsCharles Charles I in 1629 granted to Sir SirRobert SirRobert Robert Heath all America Amenca trom tromsea fromsea sea to sea between the 36th and 31st 31stparallels 31stparallels parallels of latitude under the name nameof nameof of Carolina Carolma Even then the tIle coun country country try remained remamed unexplored until 1663 1663when 1663when when Charles II chartered the thesame thesame same territory to e ght of h s loyal loyalfriends loyalfriends friends They became lord proprl proprletors propnetors etors of the province of Carol na naIr naIr Ir Marc Marci 1 1670 the tIle first settlement settlementconslstmg settlementconsisting conslstmg of 148 persons was made madeat madeat at Albemarle Point Pomt and named namedCharles namedCharles Charles Town the Charleston of to- to tod.y to-d.y tod.y to d.y dy tod.yCavaliers - - d.y dy . d.yCavahers Cavaliers Cavahers and Puritans came camefrom camefrom from England to swell the papula papulatlon population tlon The fame of Carol na sunshme sunshmespread sunshinespread spread and the story of its tertlle tertllesoli fertilesoil soli was repeated in ID many lands landsFrom landsFrom From across the sea and from trom other otherAmerican otherAmerican American colon es they came unt I Ithere 1there there were Cavaliers Cavahers Puritans PuritansFrench PuritansFrench French Huguenots Irish Dutch and andGermans andGermans Germans Many Quakers arrived arrivedearly arrivedearly early and one of them John Arch Archlade Archlade lade served as governor of the theprovlDce theprovince provlDce Later more than a tIlou tIlousand thousand sand suffering suffermg Acadians Acadlans found a ref refue refUe u/e u e / ; ( , and a home Added to all these thesewere thesewere were the Negroes bringing bnnglng an un unsuspected unsuspected suspected gift gJt ! of rhythm and fur furnislung furnishing nislung the sinews smews for tor the tIle struggle struggleto to build a new landLike land landLike Like all colonists colomsts they brought broughtwith broughtwith with them old hatreds and differ differences differences ences of class and creed Some Somecame Somecame came for tor riches some for adven adventure adventure ture others sought rebel rehef from trom re reI1g relig I1g ous persecution persecuhon They quarreled quarreledoften quarreledoften often among themselves but stood stoodtogether stoodtogether together against any common commonenemy commonenemy attackingInd attackmgInd enemy They repulsed the tIle attackmg Ind ans and they fought off plrate piratesfrom from the coast In 1718 at . Charleston atCharleston 49 p rates swung from fromI fromtl fromtl I tl e gallows in one month with 22 22of 22of of them dangling there one day I dayThey They fought for tor the right of local self government They overthrew overthrewthe overthrewthe the propne proprle ary government and be became became came a royal province prOVlDce under the thekmg theking kmg s charter They finally revolted revoltedagamst revoltedagainst agamst the king kmg himself and be became became came one of the 13 original orlgmal Ameri American American can colonies colomes They reasserted them themselves themselves selves again agam in m 1860 and there fol followed tollowed lowed the Civil warThrough war warThrough Through all the years In massa massacre massaere cre and war through storm and andfire andfire fire despite earthquake and pestl pestllence pestilence lence the people of South CarollDa CarollDastruggled Carolinastruggled struggled on They explored the wJl wJlderness wilderness derness and located new towns and andmore andmore more plantat ons They built bwlt roads roadsthrough roadsthrough through forests torests and swamps and andtIlrew andthrew tIlrew br dges across rivers and andstreams andstreams streams They built bwlt houses of tab tabby tabby by bya -a a - a composition of crushed oys oystel oyster tel " shell-and shell and shell - and of thick hard 'lood lood 'loodlogs ' voodlogs logs They spread out from the theLow theLow Low country to the Up country countryThey countryThey They built buJlt for beauty and util utJl ty tyand tyand and d scovered the dignity dlgmty of hfeCharleston life hfe lifeCharleston Charleston is the place where wheretIle wherethe tIle Ashley and Cooper rivers nvers meet meetto meetto to form the Atlantic ocean is the thetrad thetrad trad tional honal geography lesson of a aCharleston aCharleston Charleston child chlld - a lesson as slg slgmficant sigmflcant mficant as it is de cnptive cnptlve Men Menand Menand and women of at South Carolina be beheve believe heve in themselves in their state stateand stateand and in their destiny They have pro produced produced duced leisure culture and a high highresponslblhty highresponsibility responslblhty of citizenship They Theyhave Theyhave have drawn character from trom the theland theland land itself itselt and courage and integ integnty integnty nty from the r 1 " labors More than 250 250years 250years years of war torn history have havemolded havemolded molded and tempered and strength strengthened strengthened ened a people unt 1 I they know their theirmetal theirmetal theirmetalGloriously metal metalGloriously Gloriously patriotic in WorldWars WorldWarsI , I and II South Carol na has fur furn furn n shed fed and trained tramed men for tor ev every every ery battlefield in m the tIle world Her Herheroes Herheroes heroes have followed tollowed Old Glory to tothe tothe the farthest fartIlest ends of the earth gath gathermg gathermg ermg Purple Hearts and battle battlestarsand battlestars stars-and stars and - and filling fillmg lonely gravesSouth graves gravesSouth South Carolina s motto is Dum DumSPirO DmnSpiro SPirO Spero ( While Whlle I Breathe I IHope IHope Hope ) also Animus Ammus Oplbusque OplbusqueParatl OpibusqueParati Paratl ( Prepared in Spirit Spmt and andWealth andWealth Wealth or Ready with Minds Mmds and andResources andResources Resources ) and at no time tlffie in 111 her herhistory herhistory history have these tIlese phrases been beenmore beenmore more fitt ng than they are nowFrom now nowFrom From the tIle mountains mOlIDtams to the sea seaSoutIl seaSouth SoutIl Carol na has 31 055 square squaremlles squaremiles mlles of inviting landl rXffA ! na'lSi nalSi ' & .T T . * ' " fe feA A 'o o ' V Vi iiy iy "I I " Wti " " o Typical Low County road roadEdlsto roadEdisto Edlsto Island f * < i - , , , . . , , J . 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