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South Charleston is a city in Kanawha County, West Virginia, USA. The population was 12,700 at the 2005 census estimate. South Charleston was established in 1906, but not incorporated until 1919 by special charter enacted by the West Virginia Legislature. It is named because of its location on the south side of the Kanawha River, although it is actually west, not south, of the city of Charleston (but does lie directly across the river from a Charleston neighborhood known as North Charleston).

Televangelist T. D. Jakes was born and raised in South Charleston.
Country singer-songwriter Kathy Mattea was born in the city's Thomas Memorial Hospital to parents who lived in nearby Cross Lanes, where she grew up.
Thomas Memorial Hospital is itself named after Herbert J. Thomas, Jr., a World War II Medal of Honor recipient who was raised in South Charleston.
The critically acclaimed short-story writer Breece D'J Pancake was born in South Charleston.

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