Summerville
The Ponds
If you're looking for a real community with great home
values and even better amenities, come take a look at The Ponds. An easy
drive from Charleston, SC, The Ponds features an 1100-ac. nature preserve,
20-miles of trails, on-site YMCA, private fishing lakes and more. New
homes start just under $200,000.
Sun
City Hilton Head, Bluffton, South Carolina
Sun City is a Del Webb active adult community, spread
across 4,300 acres of South Carolina Lowcountry, and is offering
single family homes and town homes ("villas") for sale.
South Carolina
Roughly 4 1/4 million people live in South Carolina. Francisco de Gordillo explored the coast during 1521, but he
was unable to establish a town. The French also failed to colonize in 1562. The English settled here in 1670, but they moved on to Charleston, when the conditions worsened. The two Carolinas split officially in 1729, and South Carolina saw a lot of action during the Civil War and the Revolutionary War.
The state left the union first. South Carolina used to be mostly agricultural, but it now has a lot of textile and other mills which produce a lot more than farming does currently. In Charleston, there are companies which make wood products, produce asbestos items, make steel, make pulp, produce chemicals, as well as apparel and machinery. Farms are fewer in number but larger these days. The state grows peaches, and is fourth in tobacco production. Other agricultural products include greenhouse and nursery items, peanuts, watermelons, turkeys, and cattle. A commercial tea plantation, and the only one in America, lies 20 miles South of Charleston on an island.
South Carolina holds many attractions for thousands of visitors each year. Some of them include Fort Sumter, which is a national monument, the aircraft carrier USS Yorktown, the Cypress Gardens (located in Charleston), Hilton Head resorts of all types, the Cowpens National Battlefield, the Botanical Gardens and the Riverbanks Zoo.
