Finding "My" Charleston…Digging down on the block I live on…to see what I can find.

Category: Businesses in historic Charleston

  • Phase Five…The Church under my parking lot and the Red-Light District.

    I have documented what little history that I could find in this blog of the church graveyard that was moved just before they paved the new city parking lot in my backyard and the church and congregation that went with it. I was very lucky to have the News & Courier articles to follow, especially…

  • Phase Three…1849-1861… of the Church under My Parking Lot…Prosperity

    Reverend Dana continues in the News and Courier Charleston SC July 14, 1873, article… The career of the church had been singularly peaceful. No schism had existed. The half-century under review may be divided into four parts. The first of twelve and a half years; the second twelve and a half years, ending July 1848;…

  • Catching up with other things…Hurricane Hugo 1989

    Late on the night of September 21, 1989, Hurricane Hugo ripped through Charleston, unleashing 138-mile-per-hour winds and 20-foot tidal surges. Just as the violent swirl of wind, rain, and devastation threatened to completely overwhelm, the eye of the storm passed over and an eerie quiet settled on the coast. In his path of destruction, Hugo…

  • Back to 1952 and how everything changed…

    Here we get into the problem with chronology, again…for my little dig on my small block in Charleston, SC. But we will soldier on… Then I will swing back and do a social dig on the block and neighborhood and life. Because as we went from 2000 when Canterbury East was built…back to 1970 when…

  • The Fourth Corner of my Block

    I have been concentrating on the major portion of my block…Market, Archdale, West, and Logan…which is now Canterbury House one and two and parking for both and the city. But that leaves one corner unaccounted for…at Logan and West Streets. Most Charlestonians know and most Canterbury people know, the house on the corner of their…

  • The 1994 Saks Fifth Avenue project changed everything

    Saks Fifth Avenue decided to build a new store in old Charleston, SC. At the corner of King and Market…of course. King Street, for other non-Charlestonians, is the old and still thriving business district…more later…What wasn’t so apparent was that Saks would commission a complete and thorough archaeological and social dig into the area they…