when and where was south carolina first settled?

Answer 1

South Carolina was never really settled as South Carolina. In the late 1500s The Virginia Company secured from Queen Elizabeth the first the rights to the North American Continent from 34 degrees latitude to 46 degrees latititude, from the Atlantic to the Pacific. This is roughly from today's Wilmington, NC to today's Portland, Maine and westward to present day Oregon and California. After the failed attempt to found an English colony at Roanoke Island by Sir Walter Raleigh, Captain John Smith rounded up support for another attempt at Jamestown, Virginia in 1607, which was only marginally successful until it was discovered that the English really liked to smoke tobacco and you can't grow tobacco in the rainy, drippy, foggy climate of Britain. Plantations began to spring up all over the area for the purpose of growing tobacco, including in areas now in modern day North Carolina and Maryland. The first Black people were brought to the area in 1620, one year before the pilgrims arrived at Plymouth rock. In the mid 1600s the area south of latitude 36 degrees was organized into the colony of "Carolina", which is the Latin female form of "Carolus" , which is the Latin form of the masculine "Charles", then king of England. The capital of Carolina was established at what is now Bath, NC. Growth continued to be explosive, including new English settlements near present day Charleston, SC and the environs. At around 1720 the Carolina colony had grown so unwieldy that the British crown decided to split it in two, NC and SC, with the northern border of NC re-adjusted to the 36.5 degrees latitude level, clipping off some more land from Virginia, in order to down-size and equalize the goverance of the general area due to the explosive growth of that tobacco based colony. The southern border of SC was also then established, allowing for the establishment of a penal colony in territory now known as Georgia, so the British crown would have some place to dispose of its criminals.

Answer 2

Spaniards explored the South Carolina coast as early as 1514, and Hernando DeSoto met the Queen of Cofitachiqui in 1540 when he crossed the central part of the state. Spanish fears of French rivalry were heightened when Huguenots led by Jean Ribaut attempted to settle on what is now Parris Island near Beaufort in 1562. After Ribaut returned to France for reinforcements, the soldiers who were left behind revolted, built themselves a ship, and sailed for France the next year. The horrors of that voyage went beyond eating shoes to cannibalism before an English ship rescued the pitiful remainder of the French attempt to colonize here.

The Spanish built Fort San Felipe on Parris Island in 1566 and made the new settlement there, known as Santa Elena, the capital of La Florida Province. In 1576, under attack from Native Americans, Santa Elena was abandoned, but the fort was rebuilt the next year. The English also posed a threat. A decade later, after Sir Francis Drake had destroyed St. Augustine, the Spanish decided to concentrate their forces there. With the withdrawal from Santa Elena to St. Augustine in 1587, South Carolina was again left to the Native Americans until the English established the first permanent European settlement at Albemarle Point on the Ashley River in 1670.

Answer 3

Native Americans settled in what is now South Carolina many thousands of years ago. The date and location are not known.

Answer 4

during the reign of Charles the second.

Answer 5

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