1.The South Carolina Golf Club was first golf course and club in the country. It was formed at Charleston Green in 1786 at what is now downtown Charleston.

2.The Isle of Palms is approximatly 25,000 years old. It was formally known as Hunting Island and then Long Island and was first inhabited by the SeeWee Indians.

3.The first shot to be fired in the Civil War was fired by Citadel Cadets stationoned on Morris Island.

4.The College of Charleston was founded in 1770 and became the country’s first municipal college in 1837.

5.The Angel Oak Tree on John's Island is around 1500 years old and stands 65 feet tall with a canopy shading around 17,000 square feet.

6.The Charleston Museum was the first museum in the United States founded in 1773.

7.The walls of the American Fort on Sullivan's Island were made of spongy Palmetto logs. This protected the fort because it allowed the British cannonballs to bounce off.

8.The original nickname for South Carolina was the iodine state.

9.Charleston was the original capital of South Carolina and later moved to Columbia in 1786.

10.The nickname for South Carolinians is Sandlappers

11.The Arthur Ravenel Jr. Bridge is the largest cable stayed bridge in the United States. It opened on July 16th 2005.

12."The Best Friend of Charleston"  was the first steam locomotive in the US to establish regularly scheduled passenger service on Christmas day, 1830. 6 months later it was destroyed.  

13. The Shag is the official state dance.

14. The boykin spaniel is the official state dog.

15. The salamander is the official state amphibian