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For World-Class Birdwatching, Head To Columbia, South Carolina
The purple martin is the largest of all extant North American swallow species.getty While the seaside city of Charleston served as South Carolina’s capital in 1776, the Palmetto State developed plans for a centralized capital shortly after the United …