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Marion Square is greenspace in downtown Charleston, South Carolina, spanning ten acres. [2] The square was established as a parade ground for the state arsenal under construction on the square's north side.
The monument was 115 feet tall, and stood at the center of Marion Square in Downtown Charleston. It depicted John C. Calhoun, a prominent American statesman and politician from Abbeville, South Carolina who served as Vice President of the United States from 1825 to 1832 and who was an adamant supporter of American slavery.
Marion County is a county located in the coastal plain of the U.S. state of South Carolina. As of the 2020 census , its population was 29,183. [ 1 ] Its county seat is Marion . [ 2 ]
Shortly after the Charleston church shooting in 2015, the monument, along with the John C. Calhoun Monument in Charleston's Marion Square, [12] was defaced. [13] The Defenders monument was graffitied with the phrases "Black lives matter" and "This is the problem #racist". [11]
The alleged uprising never came to fruition and Vesey was publicly hanged in 1822. In 1842 the South Carolina Military Academy, a liberal arts military college, was established by the state legislature, and the school took over the arsenal the following year as one of 2 campuses, the other being the Arsenal Academy in Columbia, South Carolina.
Lake Marion is a large man-made lake in central South Carolina. It has a 315-mile (507 km) shoreline and covers nearly 110,000 acres (450 square kilometers or 173.7 square miles) [3] of rolling farmlands, former marshes, and river valley landscape. With territory spanning five counties, the lake is referred to as South Carolina's inland sea.
The Judgment Free Zone is coming to Harbison. National gym company Planet Fitness is set to open a new facility at 238 Harbison Blvd. in the busy shopping district near Irmo.
The change came shortly after the nearby John C. Calhoun Monument was removed from Marion Square due to the monument's connection to white supremacy. George W. Williams' new house appeared in an illustrated guide to Charleston in 1875.