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

Tag: Maps of Charleston

  • Remembrances of Charleston Women in the Civil War

    I think I mentioned earlier that I found a treasure of a book on-line called “Our Women in the War.” It is a compilation of women’s stories from across the South. The stories were requested, gathered and published by the Charleston News and Courier in 1885 with the subtitle: The Lives They Lived: The Deaths…

  • In the Beginning…Affra Harleston Comings 1670-1698

    In the Beginning…Affra Harleston Comings 1670-1698

    I have decided to go back to the beginning with a slightly different focus; early women in my neighborhood. While my block was quiet or at times should have been…my neighborhood was not. In fact, luckily for me, there is a woman who is locally well known for being a first settler on the first…

  • 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;…

  • Across the Street 1939 to 1965…Robert Mills Manor

    Actually, I am going to introduce the block across the street from my block because it explains my neighborhood better than I could…both physically, politically, and socially…locally and nationally. This Sanborn Fire Insurance map below shows what the block looked like before 1938. Note: Mazyck Street will be renamed Logan Street. The map is dated…

  • 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…

  • “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…