We present deep ground-based B and R observations of 12 fields in the Small Magellanic Cloud ( SMC ) .
The resulting color-magnitude diagrams ( CMDs ) reach the oldest main-sequence ( MS ) turnoff at M _ { R } \thicksim 3.5 and reveal the stellar population differences between the part of the galaxy facing the Large Magellanic Cloud ( LMC ) and an area on the opposite side .
In the Southern part of the galaxy , we found that there are still intermediate-age stars as far as 4 kpc from the SMC center .
The Chemical Enrichment History ( CEH ) in one of our SMC fields is also presented .