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3 Responses to “What was a scientific discovery made in South Carolina?”
gives information on a famous general of Revolutionary war, Francis Marion, the Swamp Fox.
Heywood, Lynch, Middleton and Rutledge for SC signed the Declaration of Independence. (1)
More were at the convention or served in the Continental Congress. Plenty of online references to them.
You could contact Furman University in Greenville, SC, at 864-294-2021. The Biology, History, Chemistry, Physics, Political Science and Engineering departments staffs may give you some good ideas.
Since most of the southern colonies were agricultural centers, not many scientists surfaced back then, as opposed to the mid Atlantic and northern colonies.
Here is a note about crops:
“By the middle of the eighteenth century indigo became a strong rival of rice in South Carolina. Its culture is said to have begun through the experiments of a planter’s daughter, a young girl named Eliza Lucas, who set out the plants on her father’s farm.”(2) gives an account of botanists and natural scientists of the pre-revolutionary period in the Carolinas and around Charleston.
January 29th, 2010 at 2:20 am
I don’t know about science in SC during those times, but you could look into writing about John C. Calhoun, a vice-president from the upstate area.
January 29th, 2010 at 8:08 am
gives information on a famous general of Revolutionary war, Francis Marion, the Swamp Fox.
Heywood, Lynch, Middleton and Rutledge for SC signed the Declaration of Independence. (1)
More were at the convention or served in the Continental Congress. Plenty of online references to them.
You could contact Furman University in Greenville, SC, at 864-294-2021. The Biology, History, Chemistry, Physics, Political Science and Engineering departments staffs may give you some good ideas.
Since most of the southern colonies were agricultural centers, not many scientists surfaced back then, as opposed to the mid Atlantic and northern colonies.
Here is a note about crops:
“By the middle of the eighteenth century indigo became a strong rival of rice in South Carolina. Its culture is said to have begun through the experiments of a planter’s daughter, a young girl named Eliza Lucas, who set out the plants on her father’s farm.”(2) gives an account of botanists and natural scientists of the pre-revolutionary period in the Carolinas and around Charleston.
January 30th, 2010 at 3:52 am
oh my god i have to do the same project and i can’t find any topics.