Backroads of South Carolina

To travel South Carolina is to journey through American history-from the meeting place of Hernando DeSoto and the Queen of Cofitachiqui in 1540 to Albemarle Point on the Ashley River, the first permanent European settlement established by the English in 1670; from Sullivan's Island, where outgunned patriots gave the American cause its first victory in 1776 to Fort Sumter, where the first shots of the Civil War were fired. More than 30 drives for adventurous explorers from the coastal lowlands to the Blue Ridge Mountains take you through one of the original thirteen states, including milling, agriculture, rice, cotton, indigo, textiles, historical plantations, plus outdoor adventure, and nature sights.