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September 12, 1994 (Roughly along the Ashley River from just east of South Carolina Highway 165 to the Seaboard Coast Line railroad bridge: West Ashley: Extends into other parts of Charleston and into Dorchester counties; boundary increase (listed October 22, 2010): Northwest of Charleston between the northeast bank of the Ashley River and the Ashley-Stono Canal and east of Delmar Highway ...
Berkeley County is a county in the U.S. state of South Carolina. As of the 2020 census, its population was 229,861. [1] Its county seat is Moncks Corner, and the largest community is Goose Creek. [2] After two previous incarnations of Berkeley County, the current county was created in 1882. [3]
Mulberry Plantation is a historic plantation property in rural Berkeley County, South Carolina. Located between Moncks Corner and Charleston, this property was developed in 1714 by Thomas Broughton, who became the Royal governor of South Carolina, and is one of the oldest plantation homes in the United States. Its rice fields, dikes and canals ...
U.S. Route 17 Alternate passes through the town, leading east 29 miles (47 km) to Georgetown and west 21 miles (34 km) to Moncks Corner, the Berkeley County seat. South Carolina Highway 41 leads south from Jamestown 32 miles (51 km) to Mount Pleasant in the Charleston area and north 14 miles (23 km) to Andrews.
Philip's Episcopal Church, the first congregation in Charleston, whose current building dates to 1835, is also in the French Quarter. St. St. Philip's graveyard is the final resting place of Edward Rutledge , the youngest signer of the Declaration of Independence , and U.S. Senator and Vice President John C. Calhoun , whose body was exhumed ...
Location of Berkeley County in South Carolina. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Berkeley County, South Carolina.. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Berkeley County, South Carolina, United States.
The museum closed in 1987 due to budgeting issues. The City of Charleston and the South Carolina African American Heritage Commission restored the Old Slave Mart in the late 1990s. [7] The museum now interprets the history of the city's slave trade. The area behind the building, which once contained the barracoon and kitchen, is now a parking lot.
Charleston Reborn: A Southern City, Its Navy Yard, and World War II. Charleston, SC: The History Press. ISBN 978-1540203618. Hart, Emma (2015). Building Charleston: Town and Society in the Eighteenth Century British Atlantic World (Reprint ed.). Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press. ISBN 978-1611176582.