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

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  • The Revolutionary War—1782 and the Letters of Eliza Wilkinson

    I also found this book when I first started researching Charleston and put it on my shelf. It took me four years but once I seriously went looking for a few women to write about, I read it through and fell in love with Eliza. She was not strictly in my neighborhood…but in the next…

  • 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…