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| South Carolina Facts |
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Orangeburg, South Carolina is known as the "Garden City" because of its beautiful Edisto Memorial Gardens. The Edisto Memorial Gardens displays past and current award winning roses from the All-American Rose Selections. |
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The Isle of Palms, South Carolina was originally named Hunting Island and then Long Island, it's thought to be at least 25,000 years old, and was first inhabited by the indigenous Seewee Indians. |
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The walls of the American fort on Sullivan Island, South Carolina, in Charleston Harbor, were made of spongy Palmetto logs. This was helpful in protecting the fort because the British cannonballs bounced off the logs. |
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