- First independent government formed among
American colonies, March 1776
- First British fort taken by the Americans
under Gen Francis Marion in 1781 (Fort Watson, located in Clarendon County)
- First state to secede from the Union,
December 20, 1860
- First shot fired in Civil War on Fort
Sumter in Charleston Harbor, April 12, 1861
- First municipal college - College of Charleston,
opened April 1, 1838
- First free library established - Charleston,
1698
- First public museum - Charleston Museum,
organized January 12, 1773
- First building to be used solely as a
theater - Dock Street Theatre in Charleston, constructed in 1736
- First opera performed in America - Charleston,
February 18, 1735
- First female newspaper publisher in the
US. - Elizabeth Timothy, of Charleston. She took over the South
Carolina Gazette after her husband died in December 1738.
- First fireproof building built - Charleston,
1822
- First ship built in America to cross the
Atlantic Ocean - Port Royal, 1562
- First steam locomotive built in the United
States to be used for regular railroad service - "Best Friend
of Charleston", 1830
- First cotton exported to England, 1764
- First tea planted - Middleton Barony,
1802. First commerical tea farm - Summerville, 1890
- First indigo planted, 1671
- First cotton mill built - James Island,
1789
- First slave insurrection - Stono area
near Charleston, 1739
- First Black Baptist Church established
- Silver Bluff, 1773
- First Medal of Honor awarded to a Black
recipient- W. H.Carney (Army), July 18, 1863
- First Black Associate Justice of a state
supreme court - J. J. Wright, February 2, 1870
- First mutual fire insurance company -
Friendly Society for the Mutual Insurance of Houses Against Fire,
1735
- First business publication - South Carolina
Price Current in Charleston, 1774
- First textile school established in a
college - Clemson, 1899
- First U.S. Senator elected by a write-in
vote - Strom Thurmond, November 2, 1954
- First woman lawyer in South Carolina -
Miss J. M. Perry of Greenville was admitted to practice on May
4, 1918.
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