COLUMBIA

My visit to Columbia South Carolina was so memorable in many ways.  I was accompanied by my daughter-in-law, Tania and granddaughter, Aida.  It was the first time to South Carolina for all of us.  The reason for the trip was so that Tania could present at a lowcountry land conservation symposium and needed someone to help out with 6 month old Aida.  Lucky me!!!  We started in Charleston where the conference was and then drove up to Columbia to tour the State House, as it is called in South Carolina.

This was my first capitol with my granddaughter. I was thrilled to start  the next generation of capitol goers at so young an age!!  South Carolina is called the Palmetto State thus the big palm tree in the front of the capitol.

  Aida and I went inside the building while Tania finished up some work.  I went to the office to get my capitol stamp and found I was the only person from Wyoming to visit the capitol in Columbia so far this year.

South Carolina was the eighth state to ratify the U.S. Constitution in 1788 and the first to secede in 1860.  The first shots of the Civil War were fired at Ft. Sumter in the Charleston Harbor.  There is so much history here in South Carolina.

There are many paintings of the wars fought in South Carolina hanging inside the capitol.