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The Charleston Museum is a museum located in the Wraggborough neighborhood in Charleston, South Carolina. Established in 1773, it is the oldest museum in the United States. [1] Its collection includes historic artifacts, natural history, decorative arts and two historic Charleston houses. It replaced the Old Charleston Museum that burned down ...
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South Carolina Historical Magazine. 104. South Carolina Historical Society. Anthony Appiah and Henry Louis Gates, ed. (2005), "Charleston, South Carolina", Africana: the Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience (2nd ed.), Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-517055-9, archived from the original on 2016-06-03
The Mace Brown Museum of Natural History is a public natural history museum situated on the campus of The College of Charleston, a public liberal arts college in Charleston, South Carolina. With a collection of over 30,000 vertebrate and invertebrate fossils, the museum focuses on the paleontology of the South Carolina Lowcountry.
After closing in the early 21st century for an extensive two-year, $13.5 million renovation, the museum reopened to the public on May 28, 2016. In renovating the museum, the development teams used the original blueprints, discovered in the City of Charleston archives in 2008, to return the building to its 1905 Beaux Arts style layout. The first ...
The South Carolina Historical Magazine, first published in 1900, is the only scholarly periodical entirely devoted to South Carolina history. In 1985 the Society began publication of the Carologue, a quarterly general-interest magazine of articles, illustrations, and photographs on state history, genealogy, preservation, and Society news.
"The Traditions of the Free Negro in Charleston, South Carolina". Journal of Negro History. 25 (2): 139– 152. doi:10.2307/2714595. JSTOR 2714595; Fraser, Walter J (1991). Charleston! Charleston! The History of a Southern City (Reprint ed.). Charleston, SC: University of South Carolina Press. ISBN 978-0872497979.
The Powder Magazine is a gunpowder magazine and museum at 79 Cumberland Street in Charleston, South Carolina, USA. Completed in 1713, it is the oldest surviving public building in the former Province of Carolina. It was used as a gunpowder store through the American Revolutionary War, and later saw other uses. [3]