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The economy of South Carolina was ranked the 25th largest in the United States based on gross domestic product in 2022. Tourism, centered around Myrtle Beach, Charleston, and Hilton Head Island, is the state's largest industry. The state's other major economic sector is advanced manufacturing located primarily in the Upstate and the Lowcountry
After 1880, their average annual production approximated 46 million pounds of cleaned rice, of which North Carolina produced 5.5 million, South Carolina 27 million and Georgia 13.5 million pounds. [11] The rice industry in Louisiana began around the time of the Civil War. For a number of years, production was small, but during the 1870s the ...
North Carolina: State vegetable: Sweet potato: 1995 [88] State blue berry: Blueberry: 2001 [88] State red berry: Strawberry: 2001 [88] State fruit: Scuppernong grape: 2001 [88] North Dakota: State fruit: Chokecherry: 2007 [89] Ohio: State fruit: Tomato: 2009 [90] State native fruit: Pawpaw: 2009 [90] Oklahoma: State meal: Oklahoma state meal ...
The Charleston Tea Garden, on Wadmalaw Island, outside of Charleston, South Carolina, is the only large-scale tea farm in the US, at 127 acres. [3] Smaller scale commercial farms are in the states of Alabama, Hawaii, Oregon, South Carolina, and Washington. [4]
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In South Carolina, Williamsburg County production fell from 37,000 bales in 1920 to 2,700 bales in 1922 and one farmer in McCormick County produced 65 bales in 1921 and just 6 in 1922. [23] As a result of the devastating harvest of 1922, some 50,000 black cotton workers left South Carolina, and by the 1930s the state population had declined ...
Thirteen years ago, the State Farmer’s Market moved from Bluff Road to its current location in Lexington County. Customers, rural charm and money were lost during the move.
In 1950, the federal government requested that DuPont build and operate a nuclear facility to make heavy water and tritium near the Savannah River in South Carolina. The company had expertise in nuclear operations, having designed and built the plutonium production complex at the Hanford site for the Manhattan Project during World War II.