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"W” is for Waring, Joseph Ioor (1897-1977). Pediatrician, medical historian. -
The first television station to go on the air in South Carolina was WCOS-TV in April 1953.
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"T" is for Trenholm, George Alfred (1807-1876). Merchant. Financier.
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"S" is for Santee River. The 143 mile long Santee River is formed by the confluence of the Congaree and Wateree rivers.
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"R" is for Richardson, Richard [ca. 1705-1780]. Legislator Soldier.
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"P" is for Perry, Maddie Elmina (1868 to 1957). Healing Evangelist, a native of Oconee County.
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"M" is from McClennan, Alonzo Clifton (1855 to 1912). Physician hospital administrator, a native of Columbia. McClennan was the second African-American admitted to the US Naval Academy.
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“P” is for partisans. After the fall of Charleston in May 1780, bands of partisans, or irregular soldiers, sprang up to fight royal control of South Carolina during the Revolutionary War.
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“P” is for partisans. After the fall of Charleston in May 1780, bands of partisans, or irregular soldiers, sprang up to fight royal control of South Carolina during the Revolutionary War. -
“O” is for Orangeburg Massacre (February 8, 1968). On the night of February 8, 1968, police gunfire left three young men dying and twenty-seven wounded on the campus of South Carolina State College in Orangeburg.
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