SC American plate atlas

South Carolina

The Palmetto State

Meet the plate, people, places, and stories behind one of the road-trip game’s fifty-one essential finds.

South Carolina license plate
The South Carolina plate in the game

Capital

Columbia

State bird

Carolina wren

Ratified the Constitution

May 23, 1788

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A quick trip through time

The South Carolina story

South Carolina’s history includes coastal Native nations, colonial rice and indigo wealth, the opening shots of the Civil War, Reconstruction, Gullah Geechee culture, textiles, tourism, and modern manufacturing.

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Bumper-sized history

About the plate

The palmetto tree and crescent give South Carolina plates an unmistakable state-flag silhouette.