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South Carolina is located in the southeastern United States, bordering the Atlantic Ocean. In colonial days, the state was part of a vast region that Charles I, king of England, granted to Sir Robert Heath in 1629. The region was named Carolana, a word derived from the Latin form of Charles, in reference to the monarch. His son, Charles II, changed the spelling of the region’s name to Carolina in 1663.

Once primarily agricultural, South Carolina today has many large textile and other mills that produce several times the output of its farms in cash value. Charleston makes asbestos, wood, pulp, steel products, chemicals, machinery, and apparel. South Carolina ranks third in peach production; it ranks fourth in overall tobacco production. The only commercial tea plantation in America is 20 mi south of Charleston on Wadmalaw Island. Tourism has become South Carolina’s second most important industry. Two-thirds of the tourists focused their visits on the coast. Myrtle Beach, Charleston, and Hilton Head Island are the leading destinations, but popular low-density resorts are also found at Kiawah, Seabrook, and Fripp islands. A 2006 real estate survey has estimated the population of South Carolina at 4,407,709.

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Aiken

Kit Parker

E-mail: aikenhomes@yahoo.com

Chapin

Jackie Black

E-mail: JackiBlack@aol.com

Charleston click here

Charleston is situated on a narrow, low-lying peninsula between the Ashley and Cooper rivers, at the head of a broad bay leading to the Atlantic Ocean. The city also includes an area on the western bank of the Ashley River. Charleston is one of the busiest ports of the southeastern United States; its fine, nearly landlocked harbor handles both coastal and overseas trade.

Cheraw

Myrteen R. Lee

E-mail: rholer@earthlink.net

Clemson

Shelby Hull e-PRO

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Columbia click here

Columbia is located, in central South Carolina, on the Congaree River. Columbia is a distribution, finance, insurance, and medical center; in the 1990s the city’s industrial base shifted to high-tech industries.

Florence

Jerry Eckhardt

E-mail: jeckhardt@pdn.net

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Greenville click here

Greenville is located in northwestern South Carolina, at falls on the Reedy River, on the Piedmont Plateau. Manufactures include textiles, electronics, computer components, robotics, pharmaceuticals, and rubber.

Greer

Daniel Lampinen

E-mail: dan@seppalahomes.com

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Hilton Head Island click here

Hilton Head Island is located in Beaufort County just northeast of the Georgia state line between Daufuskie Island and St. Phillips Island. Hilton Head Island is famous for its beaches. All of the beach is public, from the ocean to the high water mark. Access to the beach, however, is often private.

Isle of Palms

Vicki Hollingsworth

Lake Murray

Jackie Black

E-mail: JackiBlack@aol.com

Lancaster

Hilda Sistare
Coldwell Banker United, Realtors
Phone: 803-416-9806

Serving Lancaster, Fort Mill, Rock Hill, Heath Springs, Kersahw, Indian Land

Landrum

Sheelah Clarkson

Lexington

Edwin Gerace

E-mail: edwin@edwingerace.com

Mount Pleasant

Andrew Glavin
EXIT Realty Charleston Group
Phone: 843-367-1275

Serving Charleston, Mt.Pleasant, Isle of Palms and Sullivans Island. Get your Piece of Charleston here.

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The City of Myrtle Beach is in the center of the Grand Strand, a 60-mile crescent of beach on the South Carolina coast. In the last 25 years, Myrtle Beach has developed into the premier resort destination on the East Coast.

Orangeburg

John Kneece
ERA Wilder Realty Orangeburg
Phone: 877-453-1130 ext. 114

Orangeburg, Cordova, St. Matthews, and all points within 30 miles. My promise to you is to deliver fast and accurate information, answers to your questions, and to help you in any way possible. In other words, to EARN your business and your loyalty. (locally call me at 531-1001 ext 114)

Seneca

Shelby Hull e-PRO

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Walterboro

Audrey Murray

E-mail: thmurray@rcis.net

Wild Dunes

Tom Murph

E-mail: tommurph@aol.com

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In 2000 there were 24,000 farms in South Carolina. Of those, 26 percent had annual sales of more than $10,000. Less than one-half of farm operators identified farming as their principal occupation, and farming was a sideline for many operators who held other jobs. Farmland occupied 1.9 million hectares (4.7 million acres), of which 49 percent was cropland.

Tobacco is the leading source of income from crops and in the late 1990s accounted for one-fourth of cash receipts from crops each year. Tobacco is grown primarily in the Pee Dee River counties in the eastern part of the state, having been introduced there in the last decades of the 19th century, but is found in other parts of the Atlantic Coastal Plain as well.

Other major crops are greenhouse and nursery products, cotton, soybeans, peaches, hay, wheat, and corn. Soybeans, planted in a larger area than any other crop, are used in crop rotation because of their soil-building qualities; they are also important because of their strong market value, due to their use as animal feed and for making soybean oil. More peaches are produced in South Carolina than in any other state except California and Georgia. Cotton is a crop that has been making a strong comeback since the early 1980s, although the area used to raise cotton is a fraction of what it was in the mid-1940s. Nevertheless, cotton fiber (lint) and cottonseed once again are valuable sources of farm income. While cotton raising is limited primarily to the Inner Coastal Plain, corn and wheat are generally grown throughout the state. Other field crops include peanuts, rye, and grain sorghum. Other leading vegetable crops include tomatoes, cucumbers, snap beans, and sweet potatoes. Watermelons and apples are also grown commercially. Forest products are another important source of farm income.

Poultry products, including broiler chickens, eggs, and turkeys, are the leading source of livestock income, providing nearly two-fifths of total agricultural sales in 1997. Cattle and calves, hogs, and dairy products are also important. Cattle and hogs are raised in large numbers throughout the Piedmont and the Atlantic Coastal Plain.

Cash-crop farming is the principal type of farm economy in South Carolina. This system, which emphasizes the production of crops for cash sale rather than general farming and livestock production, evolved from the state’s oldtime cotton-plantation economy. Cotton, which is one of the state’s main cash crops, is grown widely in the Inner Coastal Plain, but most farmers protect themselves against low cotton prices or failure of this crop by growing soybeans, corn, and other crops for sale. In sections of the Piedmont, many former cotton fields are now pasturelands used for grazing, or have been planted into forests.

Most farmers in South Carolina own their own land, and the former institutions of tenancy and sharecropping have virtually disappeared. These farming practices developed at the end of the American Civil War (1861-1865), when many of the black freedmen in South Carolina and the rest of the South found themselves landless and without means of support and many former slaveowning landlords were without farmhands to raise and cultivate the cotton. However, the number of tenant farmers and sharecroppers decreased greatly as social and economic conditions improved in the last half of the 20th century. A new type of tenancy, the part-owner, has become an increasingly common aspect of the farming landscape. Prompted by mechanization and the desire to bring additional land into cultivation, a farmer leases unused land from others to create a larger and more cost-effective farming unit. Frequently, these additional lands are at some distance from each other, creating fragmented farms.

South Carolina has no major deposits of mineral fuels such as coal, natural gas, or petroleum. However, a variety of other minerals are produced. Cement, crushed stone, and gold are the state’s leading mineral products. Clays and sand and gravel are among the other materials extracted. South Carolina generally ranks highly among the states in the production of kaolin, a type of white clay used in making pottery and paper. South Carolina also is the nation’s leading producer of vermiculite, which is used for insulation and as a medium for planting. The state is the only gold producer east of the Mississippi River. Other minerals produced include peat, mica, silver, manganese, granite, and gemstones.

The manufacture of chemical goods produced more revenue in South Carolina in the late 1990s than did the state’s traditionally strong textiles output. Chemical production includes a variety of synthetic fibers, industrial chemicals, pharmaceuticals, and agricultural fertilizers. The chief centers of the chemical industry are Anderson, Charleston, Columbia, Camden, and Rock Hill.

Textile manufacture is one of the leading industries in the state. In 1996 the manufacture of textiles and apparel accounted for one-fifth of all the personal income earned from industry. The textile industry in South Carolina suffered a period of decline in the 1980s, as it did in most of the nation, and total textile employment fell by more than one-quarter. But by the mid-1990s employment began to stabilize, although some mills continued to close. Cotton goods are most important, but some carpets, yarn, and knitted goods are produced, and output of synthetic fabrics has grown. The chief textile centers are Anderson, Columbia, Gaffney, Greenville, Greenwood, Lancaster, Rock Hill, and Spartanburg.

Other leading employers in the late 1990s were firms engaged in the manufacture of industrial machinery, including automated devices for textile manufacture; plastic and rubber products; paper and paperboard; electronics and electrical equipment; motor vehicle parts and accessories; and lumber.

Nuclear power plants generate 57 percent of the electricity produced in South Carolina. The state has 7 nuclear plants, of which three are at Seneca, two at Catawba, and one each at Hartsville and Jenkinsville. Another 42 percent of the state’s electricity comes from steam plants fueled primarily by coal. Hydroelectricity makes up the small remainder of electricity produced in the state.

The principal centers of wholesale and retail trade are Columbia, Charleston, Greenville, and Spartanburg. Charleston is South Carolina’s chief seaport, handling both foreign and domestic freight traffic. The state ports authority also has terminals at Port Royal and Georgetown for maritime trade.

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