South Carolina

• One of the most famous pirates from the 1700s, Blackbeard, hailed from South Carolina.

•  South Carolina does not have a professional sports team.

• Before South Carolina was known as the Peach State, it was the Iodine State.

• South Carolina is the only state in the US where any sobriety tests must be videotaped. Breath tests must also be captured on video by the arresting officer.

• In South Carolina, there are many towns with weird and silly names. Some of these town names are Pumpkin town, Possum Kingdom, Nine Times, and Ninety Six.


• Musical instruments may not be sold on Sunday.

• No work may be done on Sunday. An exception is that light bulbs may be sold.

• Performing a U-turn within 1,000 feet of an intersection is illegal.

• Railroad companies may be held liable in some instances for scaring horses.

• By law, if a man promises to marry an unmarried woman, the marriage must take place.

• Every adult male must bring a rifle to church on Sunday in order to ward off Indian attacks.

• Merchandise may not be sold within a half mile of a church unless fruit is being sold.

• Fountain Inn - Horses are to wear pants at all times.

• Spartanburg - Eating watermelons in the Magnolia Street cemetery is forbidden.

• Hilton Head Island - it is illegal to shine a flashlight on a sea turtle.


• The World's Smallest Police Station is located in Ridgeway.

• Myrtle Beach - The largest cat in the world Hercules lives at the Myrtle Beach Safari and in the Guinness Book of World Records. He weighs more than 900 pounds and stands more than 11 feet tall.

• Charleston - Angel Oak of John's Island - This tree is the oldest living organism east of the Mississippi at 1500 years old!

• Blackville - God's Acre Healing Springs - This natural spring not only claims to heal the wounded but it has also been willed to God.

• Cleveland - Devils Kitchen at Caesars Head State Park - According to local lore, this narrow passageway through two large rocks was accidentally created by the devil himself.