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The Lowcountry (sometimes Low Country or just low country) is a geographic and cultural region along South Carolina's coast, including the Sea Islands. The region includes significant salt marshes and other coastal waterways, making it an important source of biodiversity in South Carolina.
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 ...
The Yamasee Indians: From Florida to South Carolina (2018) Clarke, Erskine. Our Southern Zion: A History of Calvinism in the South Carolina Low Country, 1690-1990; Coclanis, Peter A., "Global Perspectives on the Early Economic History of South Carolina," South Carolina Historical Magazine, 106 (April–July 2005), 130–46. Crane, Verner W.
One of South Carolina's first powerful Indian allies was the Westo tribe, who during the 1670s conducted numerous slave raid attacks on nearly every other Indian group in the region. Contemporary scholars believe the Westo were an Iroquoian tribe who had migrated from the Great Lakes area, possibly an offshoot of the Erie during the Beaver Wars .
The flag of South Carolina is a symbol of the U.S. state of South Carolina consisting of a blue field with a white palmetto tree and white crescent. Roots of this design have existed in some form since 1775, being based on one of the first American Revolutionary War flags.
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.
The Kiawah were a tribe of Cusabo people, [1] an alliance of Indigenous groups in lowland regions of the coastal region of what became Charleston, South Carolina. When English colonists arrived and settled on the Ashley River, the Kiawah were friendly. The Kiawah and the Etiwan tribe were the two principal Cusabo tribes close to the Charleston ...
Artitle in The News-Palladium (1895) describing "Chicora" as the original name of South Carolina. "Chicora the original name of Carolina", an 1861 song by E. Marks and A. Hatschek. Chicora was a legendary Native American kingdom or tribe sought during the 16th century by various European explorers in present-day South Carolina.