The state of South Carolina is rich in history and very exciting! It is interesting to find out how South Carolina was formed and grew. When our founders came over from England, they left about 12 different species of trees. Here they found there were

and birds were everywhere. Stallings Island in the Savannah River is where the oldest known pottery was made in North America by Indians. Before the land was called Carolina, it was known as “Chicora.” England’s King Charles II granted a charter for Carolina Territory on March 24, 1663. The king made the eight men proprietors who had been generals and fought to restore King Charles II to the throne.

He made the eight the “True and Absolute Lords and Proprietors” of the province. On July 21, 1669, John Locke and Lord Anthony Ashley Cooper finished the “fundamental constitution.” In mid-August 1669, under the command of Captain West, three ships weighed anchor and set sail for the new province, Carolina. The three ships were the Carolina, the Port Royal and the Albemarle. The three ships began an uneventful forty-day voyage from Ireland to Barbados. While in Barbados the Albemarle, a thirty ton sloop, was wrecked in a tropical storm and could not continue. The Albemarle was replaced by a sloop, the Three Brothers, built by Barbadians. On February 26, 1670 the ships set sail for Carolina, the Carolina, the Port Royal and the Three Brothers. But there was more bad luck….find out more