A couple sits underneath a palmetto tree as they watch the sunset at Pickett Bridge Recreation Area, site of the former Pitt Street bridge, on Wednesday Sept. 11, 2019, in Mount Pleasant.

Ultimately, the committee based its design for the tree on a 1910 pencil sketch by Ellen Heyward Jervey, an artist and librarian from Charleston, who provided drawings of crescents and palmettos ...

Malyerck also understands the draw of the palmetto tree and crescent, an image that in the past 20 years has cropped up everywhere in the state. Former Gov. Nikki Haley almost always wears a ...

South Carolina state lawmakers chose two possible designs for the state flag. The move was part of an effort to standardize SC’s palmetto tree and crescent flag.

They said that there were an endless amount of examples of a potential palmetto tree designs dating back all the way to 1861. In the end, they chose a design from Ellen Heyward Jervey in 1910.

Here’s the history behind some of Charleston’s most famous icons: Palmetto Tree. The Palmetto Tree was made the official state tree in 1939, but its connection to Charleston dates back to pre ...

On South Carolina's 230th birthday, learn the Revolutionary War history behind the state flag. SC was became the eighth state in the United states on May 23, 1788. The moon shape mark is from a ...

The proposed new design for South Carolina’s state flag began circulating online late last month, and the social media reaction lacked any Southern niceties.

Now, the palmetto tree can be found across the state. Megan Tomasic: 843-626-0343 , @MeganTomasic This story was originally published December 7, 2017 at 1:42 PM.

South Carolina senators may soon take up one of the most divisive issues to hit the state in years — standardizing the design of the iconic palmetto tree and crescent state flag ...

It is not a moon, I was told in revolutionary tones. That arc over the breezy palmetto tree that makes our flag more marketable than Elvis is actually the breastplate from a Revolutionary War uniform.