South Carolina from A to Z

“C” is for Coker’s Pedigreed Seed Company. Coker's Pedigreed Seed Company had its origins in the efforts of David R. Coker to develop and market a highly productive variety of upland cotton that yielded fiber of superior quality and length.

“C” is for Coker University. Founded in 1908 Coker is an independent liberal arts school located in Hartsville.

“B” is for a Bowles, Crandall Close (b.1947). Businesswoman.

“S” is for Smith, Nell Whitley (1929-2011). Legislator, educator, businesswoman.

“S” is for Smith, Benjamin (1717-1770). Merchant, politician, planter.

“S” is for Smith, Ellison Durant (1864-1944). In 1908 Smith stunned the political establishment by winning election to the United States Senate. He remained there for thirty-six years.

Thanks to the widespread popularity of his instrumental hit “Guitar Boogie,” Arthur Smith became one of the best known guitarists in country music.

Born in Charleston, Smith emerged as the leading artist of the Charleston Renaissance.

“H” is for Hunter, John (d. 1802). Congressman, U.S. senator.

“G” is for Grimké, Archibald Henry (1849-1930). Activist, scholar.

“C” is for Coker, David Robert (1870-1938). Businessman, plant breeder, philanthropist.

“C” is for Coker, Charles Westfield (1879-1931). Businessman, philanthropist, social reformer.

“C” is for Cofitachiqui. Cofitachiqui is the name of a sixteenth-and seventeenth-century Native American chiefdom as well as one of the principal towns of that chiefdom.

In his book Grant’s Enforcer: Taking Down the Klan Guy Gugliota offers a gripping story of the early years after the Civil War and the campaign led by President Ulysses S. Grant’s attorney general Amos T. Akerman to destroy the Ku Klux Klan. Akerman, a former Georgia slaveholder and the only Southerner to serve in a Reconstruction cabinet, was the first federal lawman to propose using the Fourteen...

“B” is for Boyce, James Pettigru (1827-1888). Minister, educator.

“W “is for Woodmason, Charles (ca.1720?). Clergyman.

“W “is for Woodmason, Charles (ca.1720?). Clergyman.

“S” is for Smalls, Robert (1839-1915.) Legislator, congressman.

“R” is for Russell's Magazine (1857-1860). Russell's Magazine was the last of the southern antebellum literary magazines and arguably the best.

“P” is for Poppenheim, Mary Barnett (1866-1936) and Louisa Bouknight Poppenheim (1868-1957). Club women, social reformers.

“P “is for Pope, Thomas Harrington, Jr. (1913-1999). Attorney, legislator, historian.

“N” is for Nullification. The passage of the federal tariff law of 1828 signaled the rise of the nullification controversy in South Carolina. Led by John C. Calhoun a majority of South Carolinians eventually came to assert that a state had the right to nullify or veto federal laws and secede from the union.

“N” is for Nuclear power. The first time nuclear power was used to generate electricity in South Carolina was a small 17 megawatt experimental prototype by South Carolina Electric and Gas (and partners) at Parr from 1963 to 1967.

“C” is for Coastal plain. The coastal plain is South Carolina's largest landform region, forming two-thirds of the state and encompassing approximately 20,000 square miles.

“M” is for Morgané, Mary Elizabeth (1815-1903). Author, diarist.