What is South Carolina nickname?

Answer 1

South Carolina is The Palmetto State. The state tree, the Palmetto Palm, is on the state flag.

There is an interesting story to explain this. When SC broke away from Britain, the first shots of the war were fired right on the coast, at Fort Sumter near Charleston. South Carolina's soldiers held many forts, but the British had the best navy in the world, and they held their ships out at sea and shot at the forts with cannons. The South Carolinians soon discovered that the soft palmetto palm trees with which they'd build the forts had a very odd quality. The wood was so spongy that the cannonballs were bouncing right off the logs or just sticking into the soft middles!

Instead of blowing up the forts with their cannonballs, the British were making them stronger by adding iron studs to the logs! They soon saw their plan wasn't working, and the war began in earnest. When everything was over and the country was free from the British, the Carolinians remembered those palm logs, and decided to honor the tree which saved the men from the cannon fire.

The Palmetto State comes from the Battle of Fort Sullivan, now Fort Moultrie. The fort had a crucial rear portion unfinished when the British sent 8 or 9 of its best man-of-war ships to enter the South in hopes of choking off George Washington and the Patriots further up North. They even sent their prized 50 gun ship, The Bristol. The British had already entered Boston and New York and a victory in the South would strangle the Patriot uprising. The unfinished Fort Sullivan had to be finished out of Palmetto logs. Palmetto logs are soft and flexible and absorbed the impact and deflected the British fire. The Palmetto also did not break and splinter. The Patriots were able to use conservative accurate fire while the British wasted most of their ammo. They also made crucial errors and ran their ship into sand bars. Needless to say, the British Royal Navy got whipped by a bunch of Colonial Patriots in an unfinished fort. The tree was added to the State Flag.

Answer 2

the Palmetto state

Answer 3

The Palmetto State