Tukey, Richard Ellery
Civic leader. Richard “Dick” Tukey was a crucial figure in the post–World War II economic development of the South Carolina Piedmont, especially Spartanburg County. As executive vice president of the...
View ArticleTown Theatre
(Columbia). Columbia’s Town Theatre is the longest continuously operating community theater in America. The theater got its start in June 1919, when Daniel Reed, a former professional actor and...
View ArticleTugaloo River
The Tugaloo River is formed by the Chattooga and Tallulah Rivers near the juncture of Georgia, North Carolina, and South Carolina. It flows along the Georgia border through Oconee and Anderson...
View ArticleTynte, Edward
Governor. Tynte was from a Somerset, England, family that had recently risen to a baronetcy, but neither his parents nor his date of birth are known. His family connection is established through the...
View ArticleTyger River
The North, Middle, and South Tyger Rivers begin in Spartanburg County and join to form the Tyger River near the city of Woodruff. The river flows through Union County, including twenty-four miles...
View ArticleTybee Island National Wildlife Refuge
Located in Jasper County at the mouth of the Savannah River, across the river from the Georgia town of Tybee Island, the refuge was created under an executive order of President Franklin D. Roosevelt...
View ArticleTwo Seed in the Spirit Baptists
Two Seed in the Spirit Baptists are one of several so-called “hardshell” Baptist groups of the early nineteenth century. Like other churches in the movement, these Baptists were highly predestinarian,...
View ArticleTuttle, Jon
Playwright, scholar, educator, administrator. Jon Tuttle was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, in 1959. He moved to New Mexico in the early 1960s and graduated from Manzano High School in Albuquerque in...
View ArticleThompson, Dorothy Perry
Poet, scholar, educator. Born Dorothy Perry in Springfield, South Carolina, in 1944, Thompson grew up with five siblings in the Wheeler Hill neighborhood of Columbia, South Carolina, which has figured...
View ArticleTreadwell, Henrie Monteith
Educator, activist. Born Henrie Dobbins Monteith in 1946 to R. Rebecca Monteith in Columbia, South Carolina, Treadwell is a third-generation activist raised in “a home where issues of social justice,...
View ArticleTraditional Medicine
Traditional medicine, although viewed as unconventional and often in contradiction to established medical practices, was once commonplace in South Carolina. Since the founding of the colony in the late...
View ArticleTuscarora War
In the first decade of the eighteenth century the Tuscaroras, an Iroquoian tribe, inhabited eastern North Carolina in fifteen towns with 1,200 warriors and a population of about 4,800 people. Increased...
View ArticleTownship Plan
For three decades following the founding of Charleston in 1670, population growth in South Carolina was painfully slow. Settlement remained concentrated close to the capital along the Ashley, Cooper,...
View ArticleTuberculosis
In any historic survey of tuberculosis (TB) in the South, two things stand out. First, until about the 1920s it was one of the region’s leading causes of death, mostly brought on by slow destruction of...
View ArticleTruck Farming
Truck farming is the production of annual fruit and vegetable crops to be sold fresh. Truck farming began after the Civil War as cities grew and the spread of railroads made transport faster and more...
View ArticleTrott, Nicholas
Jurist, scholar. Trott was born in London on January 19, 1663. His father, Samuel Trott, was a London merchant, but his mother’s name is unknown. Members of the family were closely involved with the...
View ArticleTraditional Medicine
Traditional medicine, although viewed as unconventional and often in contradiction to established medical practices, was once commonplace in South Carolina. Since the founding of the colony in the late...
View ArticleTuscarora War
In the first decade of the eighteenth century the Tuscaroras, an Iroquoian tribe, inhabited eastern North Carolina in fifteen towns with 1,200 warriors and a population of about 4,800 people. Increased...
View ArticleTownship Plan
For three decades following the founding of Charleston in 1670, population growth in South Carolina was painfully slow. Settlement remained concentrated close to the capital along the Ashley, Cooper,...
View ArticleTuberculosis
In any historic survey of tuberculosis (TB) in the South, two things stand out. First, until about the 1920s it was one of the region’s leading causes of death, mostly brought on by slow destruction of...
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