Ferries were both public and private. Public ferries were authorized, and fares set, by the General Assembly and given so many years of free competition to operate. Fares for the public McCord's Ferry across the Congaree River were set at 6¢ for a person on foot; 12¢ for a man and a horse; livestock was 4¢ a head, and a four- wheel carriage was one dollar. The Cowasee Basin consisted of the Wateree, Congaree, & Santee Rivers.

A partial list of former COWASEE Ferries, starting with the ...

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DNA-Deoxyribonucleic- A chemical insides of all cells that carries the genetic instrument for making living organisms.

CHROMOSOMES are paired threadlike “packages” of long segments of DNA contained within the nucleus of each cell. In humans there are 23 pairs of chromosomes. In 22 pairs both members are essentially identical, one deriving from the mother, the other from the father.

The 23^rd pair is different. In females this pair has 2 like chromosomes called “X”. In males it comp...

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Grist is the corn that is brought to a mill to be ground into flour. In the days when farmers took 'grist to the mill' the phrase would have been used literally to denote produce that was a source of profit. There were many grist mills on the creeks of the land known today as Ft. Jackson.

An early figurative use of phrase is found in Arthur Golding's translation of The Sermons of J. Calvin upon Deuteronomie, 1583:

"There is no lykelihoode that those thinges will bring gryst to the mill."

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With a centralized location on the Congaree River, a fort was established in the early 1700s. A ferry system was created by the colonial government in 1754 in order to connect local settlements. Named after Christopher Columbus (beating out a suggested name of Washington), the city of Columbia was founded in 1786, created by legislation by the General Assembly. In 1790, the capital of South Carolina was moved from Charleston to Columbia. In 1806 Columbia became the second planned capital in A...

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THE BEGINNING  1917

A cold January rain fell as a group of military and civilian planners mounted a sand knoll overlooking vast acres of pineland in the Congaree Sandhills, six miles east of Columbia, South Carolina .

These planners were on a mission of prime importance to the War Department: evaluation of a site for establishment of a training center for the US Army. The chosen area was in gently rolling terrain, containing lakes and swamps, overgrown with blackjack oak and loblo...

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