- South Carolina’s official dance is shag.
- The first battle of the Civil War took place at Fort Sumter, South Carolina.
- The state is the nation’s leading peach producer.
- At one time, South Carolina’s license plates read The Iodine State.
- The state’s smallest county is McCormick at 360 square miles.
- Sumter is the world’s largest Gingko farm.
- Legendary tennis player Althea Gibson and boxing champion Joe Frazier were born in South Carolina.
- Quarantine, Climax, Wide Awake – these are real towns in South Carolina.
- There are about 4,000 rhesus monkeys on Morgan Island, South Carolina.
- Duncan Park Baseball Stadium is the oldest minor league stadium in the United States.