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“R” is for Roper Hospital [Charleston]. Roper Hospital originated with a bequest from Colonel Thomas Roper to the Medical Society of South Carolina, which…

“B” is for Bluffton [Beaufort County, pop. 1,275]. Bluffton originated as a summer resort for antebellum plantation owners of St. Luke’s Parish in…

“C” is for Civilian Conservation Corps. Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s Civilian Conservation Corps [CCC] was a New Deal federal initiative that put millions…

“G” is for Greenwood County [456 square miles; population 66,271]. Located in the lower Piedmont southwest of the Saluda River, Greenwood County was…

“C” is for Clemson, Thomas Green, IV [1807-1888]. Engineer, agriculturalist, college founder. Born in Philadelphia, Clemson earned a diploma from the…

“C” is for Clemson [Pickens County, population 11,939]. This small college town began as the Town of Calhoun, incorporated in 1892, and located about a…

“H” is for Holmes Bible College. The roots of what is popularly called the oldest Pentecostal school in the world lie in a Bible study program that…

“H” is for Honea Path [Anderson County; population 3,504]. A water stop on the Greenville and Columbia Railroad in the 1850s developed into a town whose…

“L” is for Lunz, George Robert, Jr. [1909-1969]. Museum curator, marine biologist. After graduating from the College of Charleston, Lunz joined the staff…

Mike Switzer interviews John Warner, a serial entrepreneur and founder of Innoventure in Greenville, S.C. John tells us about SmartState endowed chair, Dr. Charles Bennett at the University of South Carolina whose Twitter research may be able to be used for medication safety.