This week’s block is South Carolina
(a bit tricky to make as it used a lot of templates but I changed it to rotary cutting and made it easier!)
-only 10 more blocks to go!
here’s some info about the Palmetto state
Entered Union (rank): May 23, 1788 (8)
The walls of the American fort on Sullivan Island, in Charleston Harbor, were made of spongy Palmetto logs. This was helpful in protecting the fort because the British cannonballs bounced off the logs.
The City of Myrtle Beach is in the center of the Grand Strand, a 60-mile crescent of beach on the South Carolina coast. In the last 25 years, Myrtle Beach has developed into the premier resort destination on the East Coast.
The first battle of the Civil War took place at Fort Sumter.
South Carolina is the nation’s leading peach producer and shipper east of the Mississippi River.
Before being known as the Palmetto State, South Carolina was known as, and had emblazoned on their license plates, the Iodine State.
Duncan Park Baseball Stadium in Spartanburg is the oldest minor league stadium in the nation.
Every few years, Irmo has a sighting of some kind of water monster that inhabits Lake Murray. The monster first ‘surfaced’ in 1973 when residents of Irmo and Ballentine saw a cousin of the Loch Ness Monster. It was described in The Independent News in 1980 as “a cross between a snake and something prehistoric.”
There is an old saying in Marion that anyone who drinks water from Catfish Creek becomes infatuated with the area and wishes to remain there.
In February 1852 William Burkhalter Dorn discovered the second richest vein of gold in SC history on the site of the present town of McCormick.
The introduction of tobacco in 1894 rocketed Mullins into the Tobacco Capital of South Carolina. As many as 200 tobacco barns sprang up throughout the community. Warehouses were also constructed and the first tobacco sale took place on August 28, 1895.
The first tea farm in the U.S., created in 1890 near Summerville