By Seanna Adcox | Editor-in-chief
Statewide, 63,716 people voted during last week’s early voting window for the U.S. Senate runoff between Darline Graham and Ralph Norman, according to state Election Commission data. There are 3.4 million registered voters in South Carolina. People who voted in the June Democratic primaries can’t participate in the special GOP contest. Otherwise, a lot of people need to vote tomorrow. Polls are open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.
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“To preserve that, our history, and to share it with not only other South Carolinians but with the world would be such a gift and such a wonderful thing.” - Sen. Darrell Jackson, D-Hopkins, on Goodwill Plantation becoming a state preserve.
Goodwill Plantation includes a 35-acre lake, which attracts many migrating birds, according to The Conservation Fund. (Photo courtesy of Premier Sotheby’s International Realty)
By Skylar Laird
In its past lifetimes, the Goodwill Plantation was a vast farm worked by slaves, a winter home for circus animals and a family hunting retreat. In its next life, the estate located just south of Columbia could become a state preserve. Read about Goodwill’s history from 1795, when it was established by one of South Carolina’s first congressmen.
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