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ID: 7007712
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Record Type: administrative |
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South Carolina (state) |
Coordinates: |
| Lat: 34 00 00 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 34.0000 decimal degrees |
| Long: 080 00 00 W degrees minutes |
Long: -80.0000 decimal degrees |
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Note: Inhabited by Cusabo, Creek, Congaree and others when Spanish, French & English arrived 16-17th cen.; Europeans penetrated inland in 18th cen.; strongly supported the American Revolution; was slave state, the first to join Confederacy in 1860 in Civil War. |
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| South Carolina (preferred,C,V)
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............ | "Carolina" derives from name for larger area, named for Charles I of England, who granted the land in 1629 |
| SC (C,V,USPS)
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| state (preferred, B) |
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since May 23, 1788 |
| first level subdivision (C) |
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