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A Few Women around my Neighborhood…
Like with the history of the slaves in Charleston, much work has been done also on women. My little bit of history writing eventually settled on telling the stories of the local women. As I’ve said before, most early history books of the early days of most American cities and towns are written to a…
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Phase Four of the Church under my Parking Lot…1861-1873…War and Beyond
This is the last of Reverend Dana’s Phases in the life of his church from the Charleston, SC News and Courier article I have been quoting written in 1873. We have followed the congregation of the Third Presbyterian Church on Archdale Street where they had begun in 1823 and their move to 273/5 Meeting Street…
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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…
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The Cemetery in the Parking Lot…
First, Dr. Sally Lorbach, Executive Director of Canterbury House, ended her brief history of the building of Canterbury in our monthly newsletter in 2022, with a surprise…for me, anyway…I will quote her: “A couple of interesting facts about Canterbury House property prior to its construction… The last post was about the building of Canterbury’s new…
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Finding myself at Canterbury House…
One thing about historical research; it rarely sticks to the rules. Not even one as simple as simply starting at now and digging down in time. After another round of dithering, I decided I will have to work on The Canterbury House complex as a whole and start with the first building built in 1970,…
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Where I am in Time and Space
After reading the easily available books…the “low hanging fruit,” I found myself searching for information on my part of Charleston…which led to an epiphany. It was incredibly simple…why not just dig down on the block I now live on…see what happened in this block and the ones across from the four streets…now my neighborhood….my exact…
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Introduction
I moved to Charleston in September 2020…on my 80th birthday. It is now 2023…time to stop procrastinating on finding the something to research and write about in Charleston that was mine to tell. (As arrogant as that sounds…)I fancy myself a writer of local histories…all small letters. I had moved to Charleston FROM St. “Charles”,…
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Finding "My" Charleston...Digging down on the block I live on...to see what I can find. 