SOUTH DAKOTA

South Carolina’s coastline includes the Sea Islands, a chain of barrier islands with a distinct Gullah Geechee cultural tradition maintained by the descendants of enslaved Africans who developed a language, cuisine, and artistic heritage that remains active today. The state also contains Fort Sumter, where the first shots of the Civil War were fired in April 1861, the remarkably preserved antebellum streetscapes of Charleston, and Congaree National Park, which protects the largest intact old-growth bottomland hardwood forest in the southeastern United States.

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