Reason number 5,972 to move to South Carolina - Palmetto Trees!

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SC State Seal

USC Upstate ~ "Palmetto Tree
The state tree of South Carolina. The palmetto tree is found on the state flag and all official state seals and insignia and reflects the palmetto logs that protected Fort Moultrie. These logs rendered useless the powerful British guns during their first attempt at taking Charleston during the American Revolution.  It was also found on the unit flag of the Morgan Rifles, a local nineteenth-century militia unit honoring Daniel Morgan, hero of the pivotal Revolutionary War battle at the Cowpens which occurred on 17 January 1781. The battlefield is located 30 miles from our campus."

"Asked by the Revolutionary Council of Safety in the fall of 1775 to design a flag for the use of South Carolina troops, Col. William Moultrie chose a blue which matched the color of their uniforms and a crescent which reproduced the silver emblem worn on the front of their caps. The palmetto tree was added later to represent Moultrie's heroic defense of the palmetto-log fort on Sullivan's Island against the attack of the British fleet on June 28, 1776." ~  http://www.50states.com/flag/scflag.htm

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