Exploration and Settlement Gallery at SCHS Museum
Working out of Winston Salem, North Carolina, Caleb Fort serves as the president of QMX Mobile Health, a provider of various on-site imaging and diagnostics services. Caleb Fort also engages with several local charitable, educational, and civic organizations, including time as a board member with the South Carolina Historical Society.
The South Carolina Historical Society (SCHS) museum consists of three major galleries, including the Cultures Converge: Exploration and Settlement gallery. The gallery chronicles the state’s early settlement days, including exhibits and kiosks highlighting the lives and works of Priscilla Ball, Rene Ravenel, and Eliza Lucas Pinckney, to name only a few of the most famous historical figures from South Carolina. Among the gallery’s oldest artifacts is the Bible of Reverend Archibald Stobo, which dates back to 1658.
The gallery also features South Carolina’s flora and fauna, such as those illustrated by one of the nation’s first naturalists Mark Catesby, in 1731. Joseph West’s Plat of Carolina, an elaborate art with lettered and painted records from 1691, is one of the main attractions of the gallery.
More information about the museum’s galleries, as well as special events and programs, can be found at www.schistory.org.
