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Middleton Place. / 32.89982; -80.13654. Middleton Place is a plantation in Dorchester County, along the banks of the Ashley River west of the Ashley and about 15 miles (24 km) northwest of downtown Charleston, in the U.S. state of South Carolina. Built in several phases during the 18th and 19th centuries, the plantation was the primary ...
1941. Founder (s) Fred Symmes. Fred W. Symmes Chapel, also known locally as " Pretty Place ", is an open-air chapel located in Cleveland, South Carolina. Built in 1941 by Fred Symmes, it is situated on Stone Mountain at an elevation of 3,200 feet [1] overlooking the Blue Ridge Mountains. [2] [3] It is visited by an estimated 312,000 people ...
The Charleston church shooting, also known as the Charleston church massacre, was an anti-black mass shooting and hate crime that occurred on June 17, 2015, in Charleston, South Carolina. Nine people were killed, and one was injured, during a Bible study at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, the oldest black church in the southern ...
South Carolina ( / ˌkærəˈlaɪnə / ⓘ KARR-ə-LY-nə) is a state in the coastal Southeastern region of the United States. It borders North Carolina to the north, the Atlantic Ocean to the southeast, and Georgia to the southwest across the Savannah River. Along with North Carolina, it makes up the Carolinas region of the East Coast.
The history of Charleston, South Carolina, is one of the longest and most diverse of any community in the United States, spanning hundreds of years of physical settlement beginning in 1670. Charleston was one of leading cities in the South from the colonial era to the Civil War in the 1860s. [1] [2] The city grew wealthy through the export of ...
FIPS code. 45-38590 [3] GNIS feature ID. 1246255 [4] Website. www.kingstree.org. Main Street, Kingstree, South Carolina. Kingstree is a city and the county seat of Williamsburg County, South Carolina, United States. [5] The population was 3,328 at the 2010 census.
Gaffney, SC μSA. ( 2020) The Upstate, historically known as the Upcountry, [2] is a region of the U.S. state of South Carolina, comprising the northwesternmost area of the state. Although loosely defined among locals, the general definition includes the 10 counties of the commerce-rich I-85 corridor in the northwest corner of South Carolina.
Clemson ( / ˈklɛmpsən, ˈklɛmzən / [6] [7] [note a]) is a city in Pickens and Anderson counties in the U.S. state of South Carolina. Clemson is home to Clemson University; in 2015, the Princeton Review cited the town of Clemson as ranking #1 in the United States for "town-and-gown" relations with its resident university. [8]