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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 ...
She wrote several local histories, including Street cries of an old southern city; with music and illustrations (1910), [3] [4] Historic Houses of South Carolina (1921), [5] and Charleston, Historic and Romantic (1931). [6] Her photographs are in the Charleston Museum. [7]
Earl Matthew Middleton (February 18, 1919 – November 2007) [1] was a businessman who served as a state legislator in South Carolina. An African American, he served in the military during World War II. [2] He represented Orangeburg County in the South Carolina House of Representatives from 1974 to 1984. [3]
Charleston is the most populous city in the U.S. state of South Carolina, the county seat of Charleston County, [9] and the principal city in the Charleston metropolitan area. [ b ] The city lies just south of the geographical midpoint of South Carolina's coastline on Charleston Harbor , an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean formed by the confluence ...
William Halsey was born in Charleston, South Carolina.His talent was evident at an early age, and he was encouraged by his mother, Eleanor Loeb Halsey. [1] His first instructor was the local artist Elizabeth O'Neill Verner, who had studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and was one of the leading artists in the Charleston Renaissance. [2]
Katina Maria Parthemos [7] was born in Columbia, South Carolina [8] to James and Helen Parthemos. Her father was an academic, [ 9 ] [ 10 ] and the family moved frequently while she was a child. [ 8 ] She has married twice, becoming known as Katina Walser [ 9 ] in 1969, and Katina Strauch on her marriage to Bruce Strauch in 1977.
Philip Simmons was born on June 9, 1912, in Daniel Island, South Carolina. [2] He was raised by his grandparents, before being sent to Charleston in 1920 to live with his mother when he was 8 years old.
Simons would also serve on the boards of many of Charleston’s civic and cultural institutions, including the boards of the College of Charleston, the Charleston Museum, the Charleston Library Society, St. Michael's Episcopal Church, and the Poetry Society of Charleston. The Albert Simons Center for the Arts at the College of Charleston