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Sabal Palmetto

The Sabal Palmetto is the state tree of South Carolina and Florida.

This palm is commonly seen along the coast.

Usually grows to about 30 feet.

This palm can take temperatures down to 5°F.

This is one of the best palms to give a tropical look in the coastal areas

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The Total Solar Eclipse was viewed at our school. We all watched it from our playground. It was a great day for everyone.

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South Carolina borders the Atlantic ocean  and has a coastline of 187 miles long. There are many beaches in South Carolina such as Hilton Head, Charleston, Litchfield, Myrtle beach, and more. One fun fact about Myrtle beach is in 1991 the largest sandcastle was built it was 16 miles long and over 10,00 people helped construct it.  The state reptile is the Loggerhead sea turtle and this animal swims along the SC coast.

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SC is famous for its golf courses. It has over 300 including Hunters Creek, Par Three West, and Linrick. Many people come from all over the U.S. to visit are luxurious golf courses.

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The Different Foods in the South by Asheton Witt

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The Different Foods in the South by Asheton Witt

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The south prepares lots of food. Some favorites are BBQ, cobbler, steak, and pecan pie. Some of the other foods are Lima beans, fried chicken, cheesecake, and frog legs and that is only some of the great foods.

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William  Beasley

In SC we have lots of marshes. One common animal in these marshes is the American alligator. The American alligator can grow up to 500 pounds. Many people have seen them in and around golf course ponds. One time I was fishing and I looked over and saw a giant alligator. In my opinion these  are very fun animals to observe. The young are very easy to approach, as long as there is no larger gators around.

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SC Festival of Flowers - Greenwood Area Chamber of Commerce, SC

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"The Greenwood Chamber of Commerce is a champion for business and an advocate for the community." Just as Greenwood has much to offer to its residents; likewise, the benefits of membership in the Greenwood Chamber make it one of the best business marketing decisions you can get.

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The perfect place to live By Emmalee Eustace

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The perfect place to live By Emmalee Eustace

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In South Carolina we have many different places to live, we live in a place where if you want to live in the mountains or the beach you can live there because we have lots of choices to chose to live but Greenwood is a little different because Greenwood is different, Greenwood is alot of the time very hot but in the winter it gets cooler. It will snow for like oneor two days and then it will stop snowing for the rest of the year. So we dont really ever get snow. When it does snow it doesnt even get to 1 inch. We are not realy not used to snow like people in Canada are used to snow.

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We have a Tea Plantation in Charleston South Carolina. Sweet Tea is our states favorite beverage. We have one of the few Tea Plantations in the U.S. In the 1700's tea bushes also known as Camellia Sinensis. The tea bushes were brought here from China. In the next 150 years people tried to propagate and produce tea for consumption nobody was successful until in 1888 when Dr.Charles Shepard made tea consumable in S.C.

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The snakes in South Carolina are Cotton mouths ( water moccasins), Also copper heads, and Black snakes, Finally garden snakes.
The snake I will be talking about is the copperhead. It is a 2 to 3 foot snake that is brown and black poisonous little snake. The copperhead bites and poi-sines the humans/animals it bites. So you should stay away from them when the are out at night.

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Here in SC It almost NEVER!! snows Also when it does. Its only about 1 centimeter maybe  less. It does't even get really cold. The coldest it gets is about 35  degrees fahrenheit. But it DOES get hot in Summer it gets to 100 degrees fahrenheit. So we do go swimming a lot.

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College football is a big deal in South Carolina but also, it is big throughout the entire south not just South Carolina. Fun Fact, The Clemson Tigers which are about one hour away from us won the College Football National Championship during the 2016/2017 season against The Alabama Crimson Tide, but also in 1981 against The Nebraska Cornhuskers. During the 2016/2017 National Championship with 0:01 seconds on the clock Hunter Renfrow who is a wide recieiver for Clemson made the game winning catch. In the image below is one of the all time greatest players in Clemson history Deshaun Watson who led the Tigers to their victory. Watson is now in the NFL (National Football League) and plays for the Houston Texans.

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Marsh Tacky ponies are the South Carolina state breed. The Marsh Tacky ponies live on Daufuskie Island. It is believed that Daufuskie Island is the last place these ponies will live. This species our children may never see because they are one of the most endangered breeds in the world.

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Festival of flowers Greenwood S.C. by Layla Sims

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Festival of flowers Greenwood S.C. by Layla Sims

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In Greenwood S.C. we have an event called the festival of flowers. It includes animals and different Items. Some schools in Greenwood help build them. Another name for them is Topiaries. They are built and put somewhere in uptown Greenwood.
This is my personal favorite her name is Lily.
http://www.totallandscapecare.com/landscaping/festival-of-flowers-topiaries/

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The main manufacturing place for the car brand BMW is home based  in Spartanburg, SC. BMW means Bayerische Motoren Werke. It also means Bavarian Motor Works in American. As you can tell by the name it is German. The Germans chose SC for a home base because SC has a lot of ports, therefore they could ship the cars to Germany.

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South Carolina is one of the original 13 colonies. In Greenwood S.C there is an original 13 colonies, called fort Sumter. South Carolina was founded in 1663 when King Charles II gave the land to eight noble men known as the Lord's Proprietors. ... North and South Carolina became separate royal colonies in 1729. By Payto Findley

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One thing we have in South Carolina is Fort Sumter. Fort Sumter was used during The Revolutionary War and The Civil War. The first battle of The Civil War was at Fort Sumter. Fort Sumter is located in Charleston, South Carolina.

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Construction and Design

Fort Sumter was first built in the wake of the War of 1812, which had highlighted the United States' lack of strong coastal defenses. Named for Revolutionary War general and South Carolina native Thomas Sumter, the fortification was one of nearly 50 forts built as part of the so-called Third System, a coastal defense program implemented by Congress in 1817.

The three-tiered, five-sided fort's coastal placement was designed to allow it to control access to the vital Charleston Harbor. While the island itself was only 2.4 acres in size, the fort was built to accommodate a garrison of 650 soldiers and 135 artillery pieces.

Did you know? There were no casualties during the Confederate bombardment of Fort Sumter at the start of the Civil War. The only Union deaths came during the evacuation: One soldier was killed and another mortally wounded in an accidental explosion during a planned 100-gun salute.

Construction of Fort Sumter first began in 1829 in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina, on a manmade island built from thousands of tons of granite. Building ground to a halt in the 1830s amid a dispute over ownership of the stretch of the harbor, and did not resume until 1841. Like many Third System fortifications, Fort Sumter proved a costly endeavor, and construction slowed again in 1859 due to lack of funding. By 1860 the island and the outer fortifications were complete, but the fort's interior and armaments remained unfinished.

Fort Moultrie

Construction of Fort Sumter was still underway when South Carolina seceded from the Union on December 20, 1860. Despite Charleston's position as a major port, at the time only two companies of federal troops guarded the harbor. Commanded by Major Robert Anderson, these companies were stationed at Fort Moultrie, a dilapidated fortification facing the coastline.

Recognizing that Fort Moultrie was vulnerable to a land assault, Anderson elected to abandon it for the more easily defensible Fort Sumter on December 26, 1860. South Carolina militia forces would seize the city's other forts shortly thereafter, leaving Fort Sumter as the lone federal outpost in Charleston.

Battle of Fort Sumter

A standoff ensued until January 9, 1861, when a ship called Star of the West arrived in Charleston with over 200 U.S. troops and supplies intended for Fort Sumter. South Carolina militia batteries fired upon the vessel as it neared Charleston Harbor, forcing it to turn back to sea.

Major Anderson refused repeated calls to abandon Fort Sumter, and by March 1861 there were over 3,000 militia troops besieging his garrison. A number of other U.S. military facilities in the South had already been seized, and Fort Sumter was viewed by many as one of the South's few remaining hurdles to overcome before achieving sovereignty.

With the inauguration of President Abraham Lincoln in March 1861, the situation soon escalated. Knowing that Anderson and his men were running out of supplies, Lincoln announced his intention to send three unarmed ships to relieve Fort Sumter. Having already declared that any attempt to resupply the fort would be seen as an act of aggression, South Carolina militia forces soon scrambled to respond.

Civil War Begins

On April 11, militia commander P.G.T. Beauregard demanded that Anderson surrender the fort, but Anderson again refused. In response Beauregard opened fire on Fort Sumter shortly after 4:30 a.m. on April 12, 1861. U.S. Captain Abner Doubleday-later famous for the myth that he invented baseball-ordered the first shots in defense of the fort a few hours later. The first shots of the Civil War had been fired.

Beauregard's 19 coastal batteries unleashed a punishing barrage on Fort Sumter, eventually firing an estimated 3,000 shots at the citadel in 34 hours. By Saturday, April 13, cannon fire had broken through the fortress's five-foot-thick brick walls, causing fires inside the post. With his stores of ammunition depleted, Anderson and his Union forces had to surrender the fort shortly after 2 p.m. in the afternoon.

No Union troops had been killed during the bombardment, but two men died the following day in an explosion that occurred during an artillery salute held before the U.S. evacuation. The bombardment of Fort Sumter would play a major part in triggering the Civil War. In the days following the assault, Lincoln issued a call for Union volunteers to quash the rebellion, while more Southern states including Virginia, North Carolina and Tennessee cast their lot with the Confederacy.

Beauregard and Du Pont

Following Beauregard's bombardment in 1861, Confederate forces occupied Fort Sumter and used it to marshal a defense of Charleston Harbor. Once it was completed and better armed, Fort Sumter allowed the Confederates to create a valuable hole in the Union blockade of the Atlantic seaboard.

The first Union assault on occupied Fort Sumter came in April 1863, when Rear Admiral Samuel Francis Du Pont attempted a naval attack on Charleston. Commander of the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, Du Pont arrived in Charleston with a fleet of nine ironclad warships, seven of which were updated versions of the famed U.S.S. Monitor.

While Du Pont had hoped to recapture Fort Sumter-by then a symbol of the Confederate rebellion-his attack was poorly coordinated and met with unfavorable weather conditions. In collaboration with Fort Sumter, Confederate batteries commanded by P.G.T. Beauregard hammered the ironclad fleet with artillery fire, and underwater mines posed a constant threat to the ships' hulls.

Outgunned and unable to properly maneuver in heavy currents, Du Pont's fleet eventually withdrew from the harbor after taking over 500 hits by Confederate guns. Only one Union soldier was killed during the battle, but one of the ironclads, Keokuk, sank the next day.

Five Confederates were killed during the attack, but the damage to Fort Sumter was soon repaired and its defenses improved. Confederate soldiers even managed to salvage one of Keokuk 's 11-inch Dahlgren guns and mount it on the fortress.
READ MORE: 7 Important Civil War Battles
Fort Wagner

In July 1863, Union troops laid siege to Fort Wagner, a valuable post on Morris Island near the mouth of Charleston Harbor. After being met with heavy fire from Fort Sumter, Union General Quincy Adams Gillmore turned his guns on the fort and unleashed a devastating seven-day bombardment.

On September 8, a force of nearly 400 Union troops attempted to land at Fort Sumter and capture the post by force. Union Rear Admiral John Dahlgren mistakenly believed the fort was manned by a skeleton crew, but the landing party was met by over 300 Confederate infantry, who easily repulsed the assault.

Following the failed infantry attack, Union forces on Morris Island recommenced their bombing campaign on Fort Sumter. Over the next 15 months, Union artillery effectively leveled Fort Sumter, eventually firing nearly 50,000 projectiles at the fort between September 1863 and February 1865. Despite suffering over 300 casualties from the Union bombardments, the beleaguered Confederate garrison managed to retain control of the fort until February 1865.

Only when Union General William T. Sherman was poised to capture Charleston did the Confederates finally evacuate. Union forces would reclaim Fort Sumter on February 22, 1865. Robert A. Anderson and Abner Doubleday, the two commanding officers from the original siege of Fort Sumter, would both return to the fortress on April 14, 1865, for a flag-raising ceremony.

Fort Sumter National Monument

After the Civil War, the derelict Fort Sumter was rebuilt and partially redesigned. It would see little use during the 1870s and 1880s and was eventually reduced to serving as a lighthouse station for Charleston Harbor. With the start of the Spanish-American War (1898), the fortress was rearmed and once again used as a coastal defense installation. It would later see service during both World War I and World War II.

In 1948, Fort Sumter was decommissioned as a military post and turned over to the National Park Service as a National Historic Site and part of Fort Sumter and Fort Moultrie National Historical Park. Tours are now available, attracting more than 750,000 visitors every year.

Sources

Fort Sumter and Fort Moultrie: History & Culture. National Park Service.
Fort Sumter. American Battlefield Trust.
Fort Sumter: The Civil War Begins. Smithsonian Magazine.

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Fort Sumter: Civil War, Battle & Location | HISTORY

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Fort Sumter is an island fortification located in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina, and is most famous for being the site of the first battle of the Civil War.

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Common Animals in South Carolina By Kinsley Proctor

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Common Animals in South Carolina By Kinsley Proctor

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In South Carolina, We have lots of different animals. The most common animals are deer,  horses, lizards, snakes, and turtles. A lot of people hunt deer. Snakes, lizards, and horses are common pets here. Turtles live in our local rivers and lakes. Some turtles are actually kept as pets.

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In South Carolina there is a butterfly called the Monarch Butterfly.
The Monarch Butterfly is a butterfly that migrates to Mexico in the winter and the Monarch Butterfly visits us in August.
The Monarch Butterfly is a butterfly that can get a Obligate neogregarine parasite  called Ophryocystis elektroscirrha or to
abbreviate say OE.
We tested the Butterflies for the university of Georgia.

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We have a local body of water which is called Lake Greenwood. It is 22 miles  long with over 220 miles of shoreline.  We also get our water from Lake Greenwood after it is tested and purified.

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