The Sumter County Museum is a private non-profit institution whose mission is to promote the history of Old Sumter District through the preservation and exhibition of objects, manuscripts, and documents, which relate the story of this area of South Carolina. The...

The Sumter County Gallery of Art is a housed in a newly renovated state of the art facility adjacent to Patriot Hall. SCGA is a non-profit art institution and features rotating shows of both traditional and contemporary art by local, regional, and nationally...

Located in Sumter, South Carolina, Swan Lake-Iris Gardens began in 1927 as a private fishing lake for wealthy businessman Hamilton Carr Bland, who also began landcaping his garden with Japanese Iris flowers. It is currently the only public park in the United States...

Museum preserves the history of South Carolina's cotton culture. See an original plantation spinner, a 130-year-old loom, a three-foot tall boll weevil, original tools and more. Interactive exhibits and amusing stories in an authentic setting allow you to experience...

While most people refer to a button as the “thing” that holds your pants up, for 75-year-old Dalton Stevens, it’s a work of art. Among the other items Stevens has put buttons on are: an outhouse, a hearse, a Chevrolet Chevette, a guitar, a piano and two...

The Camden Archives and Museum is funded by the City of Camden and is a department of the City. It is responsible for collecting, preserving and making accessible items of importance to the history of the area. The artifacts in the museum represent a diverse...

Congaree National Park preserves the largest tract of old growth bottomland hardwood forest left in the United States. Located in South Carolina, the 22,000 acre (89 km²) national park received that designation in 2003 as the culmination of a grassroots campaign...

The Historic Camden Revolutionary War Site in Camden, South Carolina preserves structures and grounds that are representative of the Southern theater of the American Revolutionary War. Managed by a consortium of private donors and local governments, the area is also...

This c. 1820 house, now restored, served briefly as a headquarters for Gen. Sherman's army during the Civil War.

The gardens were established in the early 1930s by Mrs. David R. Coker on the land, which had become a neglected dump. Mrs. Coker made trails, dug a pond, and planted ornamental species including azaleas, camellias, tea olives (Osmanthus fragrans), and wisteria. In...