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  2. Lowndesville, South Carolina - Wikipedia

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    Lowndesville is located at (34.210385, -82.649336 [ 6 ] According to the United States Census Bureau , the town has a total area of 0.77 square miles (2.0 km 2 ), all land.

  3. William Lowndes (congressman) - Wikipedia

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    William J. Lowndes first served in the South Carolina House of Representatives from 1804 to 1808.. Elected to the Twelfth United States Congress as a Representative from the Charleston area, Lowndes was a key member of the 'War Hawk' faction along with Speaker of the House Henry Clay, future President of the Second Bank of the United States Langdon Cheves, Tennessee representative Felix Grundy ...

  4. List of African-American historic places in South Carolina

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    Others have South Carolina historical markers (HM). The citation on historical markers is given in the reference. The location listed is the nearest community to the site. More precise locations are given in the reference. These listings illustrate some of the history and contributions of African Americans in South Carolina.

  5. Upstate South Carolina - Wikipedia

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    The Upstate, historically known as the Upcountry, [4] 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.

  6. SC massacre was forgotten by history. Now it’s being ... - AOL

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    South Carolina has forgotten history of its own. For the first time, there will be an event to commemorate the 1876 Hamburg Massacre, a violent attack on the Reconstruction era rights of Black ...

  7. History of South Carolina - Wikipedia

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    South Carolina is named after King Charles I of England.Carolina is taken from the Latin word for "Charles", Carolus. South Carolina was formed in 1712. By the end of the 16th century, the Spanish and French had left the area of South Carolina after several reconnaissance missions, expeditions and failed colonization attempts, notably the short-living French outpost of Charlesfort followed by ...

  8. South Carolina Highway 71 - Wikipedia

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    South Carolina Highway 71 (SC 71) is a 14.980-mile-long (24.108 km) state highway in the northwestern part of the U.S. state of South Carolina.The highway travels in a west-to-east orientation, however it is designated and signed as a north–south highway.

  9. Antebellum South Carolina - Wikipedia

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    Antebellum South Carolina is typically defined by historians as South Carolina during the period between the War of 1812, which ended in 1815, and the American Civil War, which began in 1861. After the invention of the cotton gin in 1793, the economies of the Upcountry and the Lowcountry of the state became fairly equal in wealth.