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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. While keeping most of its design intact since its adoption, it has ...
The chairman was William Porcher Miles, who was also the Representative of South Carolina in the Confederate House of Representatives. The Committee began a competition to find a new national flag, with an unwritten deadline being that a national flag had to be adopted by March 4, 1861, the date of President Lincoln's inauguration. This would ...
Changed the color of the palmetto to gold, as described on en:Flag of South Carolina#Civil War: 17:55, 10 November 2009: 1,346 × 886 (73 KB) Permjak: Color: 12:29, 7 February 2006: 1,346 × 886 (73 KB) Fornax: Flag of South Carolina Jan 26 1861 - Jan 28 1861 Category:Historical flags of the United States
Those soldiers built their fort with palmetto logs that withstood British Navy cannonballs and became such a symbol of strength that the palmetto tree was added to South Carolina’s flag in 1861.
6. Oklahoma. This is the flag with the best lessons for South Carolina. The story goes that a Boy Scout leader looking for the exact Native American imagery to replicate the Oklahoma state flag ...
The South Carolina Hall of Fame [18] located in the Myrtle Beach Convention Center, is the official state hall of fame. The South Carolina Artisans Center, [19] in Walterboro, is the official folk art and crafts center of the state of South Carolina. In 2001, the Abbeville Opera House received the designation of the official state rural drama ...
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — More than 50 years after South Carolina raised a Confederate flag at its Statehouse to protest the civil rights movement, the state is getting ready to remove the rebel banner.
The Great Seal of South Carolina was "set" or "affixed" to the Ordinance of Secession of December 20, 1860, at Secession Hall in Charleston shortly after 7:00 p.m., following which convention delegates signed it, including Robert Barnwell Rhett, as some three thousand South Carolinians watched enthusiastically the proclamation of South Carolina ...