Place details
Place nameSouth Carolina
Other namesSC
CountryUnited States
Latitude34
Longitude-80
SourceThesaurus of Geographic Names
Overview
Inhabited by Cusabo, Creek, Congaree & others when Spanish, French & English arrived 16-17th cen.; Europeans penetrated inland in 18th cen.; strongly supported the American Revolution; was slave state, the first to join Confederacy in 1860 in Civil War.