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Charleston Information:
Charleston is in Berkeley county. Area zipcodes, with demographic data: 29401 29402 29403 29406 29407 29409 29412 29413 29414 29416 29417 29422 29423 29424 29425 29492
Charleston area code: 843
Charleston latitude and longitude: 32.9577, 79.8822
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Settled by the English in 1670, South Carolina was based on a
plantation culture with an aristocratic, wealthy society that was
dependent on black slave labor. One of the original 13 colonies, South
Carolina was first formed in 1729 when the Carolina colony was divided
in two to form North and South Carolina. The attack on Fort Sumter in
the Charleston harbor launched the Civil War. After the war, the
structure of the state changed. Today, South Carolina is a growing
research center and banking state. It is fitting that the state tree
of the "Palmetto State" is the cabbage palmetto, which also appears on
the state flag. The flower is the yellow jessamine, and the capital is
Columbia.
Copyright: Library of Congress and CIA Fact Book.
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