SCIWAY News, No. 3 – July 1997

In This Issue

• Where Have We Been?
• E-mail Addresses for South Carolina Elected Officials
• New South Carolina Web Sites
• Andrews, South Carolina – Biggest Small Town on SCIWAY
• Five More South Carolina Library Catalogs on Web
• Civil War @ Charleston
• South Carolina Emergency Management Division
• Upcoming Festivals, Shows, Events
• Water Tower of the Month

Where Have We Been?

Well, I wish I could say I spent May and June leisurely cruising the Intracoastal Waterway . . . but I was actually grappling with an unfriendly case of pneumonia. I'm feeling much better now though and am looking forward to getting SCIWAY News back on the wire once a month.

Thanks to all of you who have written the past three months with suggestions for SCIWAY News and SCIway Web. As you will see from this issue, the number and quality of South Carolina websites increase every week.

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E-mail Addresses For South Carolina Elected Officials

SCIway Web now lists the e-mail addresses of 140 South Carolina elected officials – including mayors, state representatives and senators, the governor and other state officers, and US representatives and senators. Just link to https://www.sciway.net/gov/#sc-elected-officials. If you know of an address we should add or change, please send a short message to news@sciway.net.

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New South Carolina Web Sites

Beaufort Sail and Power Squadron

http://www.usps.org/localusps/beaufort/

Berkeley County Chamber of Commerce

http://berkeleysc.org

Bits & Pieces Mutual Consent Reunion Registry (for adoptees and birthparents)

http://www.innova.net/~goob/ - site no longer exists

Catawba Wateree Genealogical Society (Kershaw and Lancaster counties)

http://www.catawba-wateree.scgen.org - site no longer exists

Chapin, South Carolina

http://www.chapinsc.com

Charleston County Library (remodeled)

http://www.ccpl.org

Charleston Maritime Resource Center

http://www.ships.net/ - site no longer exists

Cheraw High School - Chesterfield County

http://chs.chesterfieldschools.org/

Columbia A to Z

http://www.columbiasouthcarolina.com

First Baptist Church of Columbia

http://www.fbccola.com

Irmo, South Carolina

https://www.townofirmosc.com/

Lake Murray

http://www.lakemurray.com - page no longer exists

Magnolia Plantation and Gardens - Charleston

http://www.magnoliaplantation.com

Midlands Technical College Astronomy Club

http://www.mid.tec.sc.us/edu/ed/sci/ac3index.html - page no longer exists

Port Royal, South Carolina

http://www.portroyal.org

Santee Cooper

http://www.santeecooper.com

South Carolina Attorney General

http://www.scag.gov/

South Carolina Department of Agriculture

https://agriculture.sc.gov

South Carolina Information Resources Council

http://www.state.sc.us/irc/ - page no longer exists

South Carolina Society of the Children of the American Revolution

http://scscar.webs.com/

Sons of Confederate Veterans - Saluda County

http://www.geocities.com/heartland/meadows/5083/ - site no longer exists

Upstate Confederate Re-enactors - Greenville

http://www2.viperlink.net/members/mkeller/ - site no longer exists

Wando High School Bands - Charleston County

http://www.wandobands.org

Woodruff, South Carolina

http://www.cityofwoodruff.com

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Andrews, South Carolina – Biggest Small Town On SCIWAY

Andrews is a small town (population 3,000) located about 20 minutes inland from Georgetown. But thanks to the Andrews Revitalization Association and two town residents – Tim Nesbitt and Matt Temple – Andrews has one of the most engaging websites (http://members.tripod.com/~andrews_sc/government.html in South Carolina. This site was created to promote economic development, and it includes a business directory as well as information about Andrews' history, government, public services, and claims to fame. It has increased the town's visibility and boosted community pride.

In recent months the greatest growth on South Carolina's Information Highway has occurred at the local level. At least 90 of our cities and towns are now on the Web, and you can find them in the Cities and Counties section of SCIway Web (https://www.sciway.net/city/). If you know of a local site we've missed, please send its address to news@sciway.net.

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Five More South Carolina Library Catalogs On Web

Five more South Carolina libraries – Charleston County, Richland County, Coker University, Erskine College, and Presbyterian College – now have online catalogs that can be accessed directly by Web browsers such as Netscape and Internet Explorer. Web catalog interfaces are easier to use than character-based telnet interfaces, and they don't require you to have telnet software installed on your computer.

The Charleston County Library has also improved its Web site significantly . . . moved to a new address (http://www.ccpl.org) . . . and developed a South Carolina Room (https://www.ccpl.org/south-carolina-history) for genealogical researchers.

More than 50 South Carolina library catalogs can now be accessed via the Internet. You can reach all of them through SCIway Web's Libraries, Archives, and Museums section (https://www.sciway.net/lib).

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Civil War @ Charleston

I've always been interested in history, but I can remember some history text books in high school and college that were, let's say, dry. I doubt that textbooks have improved much in the relatively short time since then, but I know there are now some history websites that I would have skipped lunch for. One of these is Civil War @ Charleston, which is available in two flavors:

Frames: http://www.awod.com/gallery/probono/cwchas/cwlayout.html - page no longer exists

No frames: http://www.awod.com/gallery/probono/cwchas/main.html - page no longer exists