Capital City & Lake Murry Country

During the colonial period and into the first decade of American independence, wealth, tradition and access to the sea held the state's cultural and political heart in Charleston.

But by the Revolution, massive population movement had peopled the midlands and the upstate with diverse communities. Scant representation in the power structure, along with the distance to the seats of law and justice in Charleston, left this backcountry much to its own devices - a condition that no doubt pleased some of its citizens, but in time dismayed the majority.
 

 
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