The Palmetto Place Names Project
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Discoveries from backroad trips to the most intriguingly-named places in every South Carolina county 

"The names of places carry a charge of the people who named them, reverent or irreverent, descriptive, either poetic or disparaging. You can name anything San Lorenzo, but Shirt Tail Canyon or the Lame Moor is something quite different." - John Steinbeck, East of Eden, Chapter 1
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Introduction (start here)

Road Trip 1 (February 2021):

​Round O (Colleton County)
North (Orangeburg County)
Plum Branch (McCormick County)
Ninety Six (Abbeville County)
Due West (Greenwood County)
​Possum Kingdom (Greenville County)
Cross Anchor (Spartanburg County)
Prosperity (Newberry County)
​Coward (Florence County)
Ketchuptown (Horry County)

Road Trip 2 (October 2024):
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Blue Brick (Marion County) 
Ruby (Chesterfield County) 
Birdtown (Lancaster County)
Lucknow (Lee County)
Lone Star (Calhoun County)
Privateer (Sumter County)
​Sardinia (Clarendon County)

​Road Trip 3 (May 2025)

Trio (Williamsburg County)
Moncks Corner (Berkeley County)
Cat Hole (Dorchester County)
Eureka (Aiken County)
Limp (Saluda County)
Fork (Dillon County)

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COUNTIES TO COME:

Allendale
Anderson
Bamberg
Barnwell
Beaufort
Charleston
Cherokee
Chester
Darlington
Edgefield
Fairfield
Georgetown
Hampton
Jasper
Kershaw
Laurens
Lexington
Marlboro
Oconee
Pickens
Richland
Union
York