South Carolina

Palmetto State

South Carolina offers the historic district in Charleston, Revolutionary War battlefields and restored antebellum plantations, sandy beaches, water parks, a wide selection of historical sites and a wide selection of first-class golf courses. The weather is wonderful, the people are friendly and South Carolina offers you the good life.

South Carolina has many large textile and other mills that produce several times the output of its farms in cash value. Charleston makes asbestos, wood, pulp, steel products, chemicals, machinery, and apparel. The farms in the state have become fewer but larger in recent years. South Carolina ranks third in peach production and fourth in overall tobacco production. Other top agricultural commodities include nursery and greenhouse products, watermelons, peanuts, broilers and turkeys and cattle and calves. The only commercial tea plantation in America is 20 miles south of Charleston on Wadmalaw Island.

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Population: 4,321,249 as of 2006
Land Area: 30,109 sq mi. (77,982 sq km)
Per Capita Personal Income: $31,013 as of 2007
Capital: Columbia

Although South Carolina has no major league professional sports teams the state does have minor league baseball teams located in Fort Mill, Myrtle Beach, Greenville, Columbia, and Charleston. Also, minor league hockey teams can be found in North Charleston, Greenville, and Florence. There are several steeplechase horse races are held each year also.

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That the palmetto palm (a variety of fan palm) has been associated with South Carolina since colonial days and the first appearance of Palmetto State appears to have been around 1843?

That Campbell's Covered Bridge built in 1909, is the only remaining covered bridge in South Carolina?

That the walls of the American fort on Sullivan Island, in Charleston Harbor, were made of spongy Palmetto logs? This was helpful in protecting the fort because the British cannonballs bounced off the logs.

That South Carolina is the nation's leading peach producer and shipper east of the Mississippi River?

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