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

Tag: Maps of Charleston

  • 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…

  • First, getting the lay of the land…

    My first visit to Charleston, before moving here three years later, just happened to be during Hurricane Matthew. My son and his family had recently moved to Mt. Pleasant, and it was their first hurricane. They asked the local old-timers on their street what to do. They did what they said…battened down the hatches and…