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Why was the capital of South Carolina moved from Charleston to Columbia
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The first meeting of the South Carolina Assembly in the Charleston State House occurred in 1756. In 1786 the South Carolina Assembly voted to move the state capital to columbia a more geographically, centralized location.
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