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Immigration & Migration Paths

Huguenots, Scots-Irish, Germans, and the corridors out of South Carolina.

People moved into SC along the Great Wagon Road, through Charleston port, and from neighboring colonies. They also left—for Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Texas, and mill towns. Track both inbound ethnicity patterns and outbound migration when a surname vanishes.

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