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The South Carolina Confederate Relic Room & Military Museum is located within the Columbia Mills Building and is the oldest museum exhibit (est. 1896) in Columbia. The museum represents four distinct sections of South Carolina history: art, cultural history, science and technology, and natural history.
This list of museums in South Carolina, United States, encompasses museums defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
The Gibbes Museum of Art in Charleston, the Greenville County Museum of Art, the Columbia Museum of Art, Spartanburg Art Museum, and the South Carolina State Museum in Columbia among others provide access to visual arts to the state. There are also numerous historic sites and museums scattered throughout the state paying homage to many events ...
A display is seen at the museum created by South Carolina civil rights photographer Cecil Williams, the only civil rights museum in the state, on Tuesday, Dec. 12, 2023, in Orangeburg, South Carolina.
The Upcountry History Museum is a history museum in Greenville, South Carolina that displays the regional history of fifteen upstate South Carolina counties from the early 18th century to the present. Exhibits designed by Christopher Chadbourne and Associates emphasize technology rather than artifacts "to engage the senses, ignite the ...
We remember George Elmore, the Black business owner and entrepreneur who lost everything to strike down the all-white primary system here in South Carolina and across the nation.
The area had been subject to numerous European explorations and several aborted attempts at colonization. Scottish immigrants founded the short-lived "Stuart Town" in 1684, [1] and the British successfully founded the city of Beaufort in 1711, the second-oldest in South Carolina (behind Charleston).
They were captured from the Congo-Angola border and rice-producing regions of West Africa, like the "Rice Coast," the "Windward Coast," the "Gambia," and "Sierra-Leon", and forced to work in the surrounding coastal low-country. [9] The South Carolina and Georgia colonists ultimately adopted a system of rice cultivation that drew heavily on the ...