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

Tag: Charleston Cemeteries

  • Caroline Howard Gilman 1794—1888

    Creator of the Charleston Unitarian Church Graveyard among other things Charleston’s old Unitarian graveyard is a popular tourist site for two reasons: One, the grounds are left more or less to nature with minimal control by volunteers. And two, it is haunted. I will add links if you are interested in more…a great story about…

  • 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 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…

  • 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;…

  • Phase Two–1835-1848–The Church Under My Parking Lot…and Fire

    Continuing with the Charleston SC 1873 News and Courier article of an interview and sermon by Rev. Dana from Third Presbyterian Church…under my parking lot… “The half-century under review may be divided into four parts. The first of twelve and a half years; (the last post, Phase One) the second twelve and a half years,…

  • Phase One–1823-1835–of the Church under my Parking Lot…and Abolition

    When and who…. The News and Courier 1873 article for Monday July 14, 1873, I began quoting in the introduction to this series on the church under my parking lot contains a sermon given by the pastor, Reverend W.C. Dana, where he documents the church’s history in four 12-½ year phases…and the reporter tells us…

  • The Who, When, and Why there was a Church and Graveyard under my Parking Lot

    I wrote two posts on this blog back in July on the graveyard under the parking lot of Canterbury House at the corner of Market and Archdale in old town Charleston, SC where I now live. I wrote several posts after that…trying to stay within my stated framework…digging down on the history of this one…

  • “Centuries old” gravestones

    Continuing from the last post on The News and Courier story from 1953 telling how Alderman Halsey uncovered the graveyard hidden for years that was slated to become more parking for the city. This map I stumbled across shows it exactly. In fact, the city parking lot covered the entire area that would become Canterbury…

  • 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…