Upstate South Carolina Is Hiding Something Most Americans Don’t Know Exists

Upstate South Carolina is hiding far more than peach orchards and old textile mills. In this video, retired geography teacher Professor Amos Whitaker takes you through 25 remarkable geographic facts about the Upstate: ancient mountains older than the Himalaya, towering waterfalls on the Blue Ridge Escarpment, a drowned valley beneath Lake Jocassee, a tiny flower that vanished from science for nearly a century, a Revolutionary War battle won on a cattle pasture, and a railroad tunnel that ended up aging blue cheese. If you thought South Carolina was only beaches and marsh, this one will change the map in your head. In this video: - The Blue Ridge Escarpment and the "Blue Wall" - Table Rock, Caesars Head, and Raven Cliff Falls - Lake Jocassee and the Jocassee Gorges - The Oconee bell, the flower lost for ninety years - Cowpens, Ninety Six, and the Cherokee homeland - How the Upstate went from cotton mills to BMW Which fact surprised you the most? Tell me in the comments, and subscribe for more hidden corners of America. #SouthCarolina #UpstateSC #Geography #AmericanGeography #BlueRidgeMountains #Appalachians #Greenville #Waterfalls #HiddenAmerica #GeographyFacts #LakeJocassee #Documentary #Education #TravelUSA