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(Includes information about weekly rural newspapers in South Carolina) John Hammond Moore (1988). South Carolina Newspapers. University of South Carolina Press. ISBN 978-0-87249-567-8. Patricia G. McNeely. Palmetto Press: The History of South Carolina’s Newspapers and the Press Association. South Carolina Press Association, 1998.
It is one of the oldest and longest-running newspapers in South Carolina. Since 1939, Hampton has hosted the annual Hampton County Watermelon Festival, held in the third week of June. [8] The weeklong festival features such events as a watermelon judging contest and a watermelon eating contest. The main event of the festival is the parade held ...
One of Landmark Communications's holdings was TeleCable Corporation, a cable television service that began in a small Virginia town in the late 1950s.Landmark obtained franchise licenses to operate in about two dozen cities throughout the eastern half of the U.S., including Overland Park, Kansas; Plano & Arlington, Texas; Bloomington, Illinois; Racine, Wisconsin; Springfield, Missouri ...
The first was the South Carolina Leader, established at Charleston in 1865. [2] In the 19th and early 20th centuries, the growth of the African American press in South Carolina was hampered by the fact that a large proportion of South Carolina African Americans lived in poverty in the countryside. [1]
Hampton County is a rural county located in the U.S. state of South Carolina.As of the 2020 census, the population was 18,561. [1] Its county seat is Hampton. [2] It was named for Confederate Civil War general Wade Hampton, who in the late 1870s, with the ending of Reconstruction, was elected as governor of South Carolina.
Ambrose Elliott Gonzales (May 27, 1857 – July 11, 1926) was a newspaper founder with his brother and wrote stories about African Americans. He was born on a plantation in Colleton County, South Carolina. [1] After working as a telegraph operator, he and his brother Narciso Gonzales founded the newspaper The State. His paper opposed lynching ...
White Knoll Timberwolves quarterback Landon Sharpe (0) passes during the 5A State Championship Game Friday, Dec. 1, 2023, at South Carolina State’s Oliver Dawson Stadium in Orangeburg, SC.
In March of 1787, the South Carolina General Assembly prohibited slave importation for three years. In 1800, the Assembly extended the ban until 1803. Between 1803 and 1805, approximately 80 ships brought in over 14,000 people. [5] In 1806, the first newspaper ads featuring enslaved Africans for sale at Gadsden’s Wharf appeared.