Carolina Snaps
Mary Simms Oliphant
Season 3 Episode 7 | 59sVideo has Closed Captions
Mary Simms Oliphant
South Carolina historian Mary C. Simms Oliphant became the first woman to receive the Order of the Palmetto.
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Carolina Snaps is a local public television program presented by SCETV
Support for this program is provided by The ETV Endowment of South Carolina.
Carolina Snaps
Mary Simms Oliphant
Season 3 Episode 7 | 59sVideo has Closed Captions
South Carolina historian Mary C. Simms Oliphant became the first woman to receive the Order of the Palmetto.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorshipSimms Oliphant became the first to receive the Order of the Palm the highest civilian honor awarded by the Governor of South Carolina.
Born in Barnwell County, Mary C. Simms Oliphant was the granddaug of novelist and historian Willia Simms.
In 1916, only a few weeks after graduating from college, the state superintendent of educ asked her to update her grandfat state history to use as a textbo Written in 1840, Mary had quite a bit of history Her revisions were adopted and revised every five years until 1932 when Oliphant presented her own school textboo The Simms History of South Carol
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Carolina Snaps is a local public television program presented by SCETV
Support for this program is provided by The ETV Endowment of South Carolina.