Landmark: A larger-than-life bronze monument to longtime U.S. Sen. Strom Thurmond. A nine-foot-tall bronze monument in the likeness of U.S. Sen. Strom Thurmond stands at the State House in Columbia.

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A nine-foot-tall bronze monument in the likeness of U.S. Sen. Strom Thurmond stands at the State House in Columbia. Thurmond was the first person in the U.S. to win a major election by write-in ...