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

Tag: Charleston history

  • Some interesting sites….

    From time to time, I plan to post the links to sites that have popped up on my newsfeed, Facebook page, or sent to me by friends who know my interests…mostly St. Charles Historical Society fellow researchers…one who also has family in early Charleston…small world. A Grad Student Found the Largest Known Slave Auction in…

  • Narrowing in…

    So, now I had an overview, a lay of the land…as it were. And I had already decided to narrow in on my block as a focal point. But first a few issues: Research When I was researching local history in St. Charles, MO, I was working in an old archive…so I could physically delve…

  • Land if you can find it…

    I began researching Charleston the old-fashioned way…the way I learned to do it at the St. Charles archives…the earliest timeframe first. Before settling on my block in Charleston as my home base, I began to accumulate copies online of old maps. I am going to share an old one here out of chronological sequence (and…

  • 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…

  • 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”,…