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Daniel Island, South Carolina is a 4,000-acre (16 km 2) body of land located in the city of Charleston, South Carolina, United States. Named after its former inhabitant, the colonial governor of the Carolinas, Robert Daniell , the island is located in Berkeley County and situated between the Cooper and Wando Rivers .
Prior to the opening of Oakland Cemetery in 1840, Sag Harbor's most notable cemetery was the Old Burial Ground, opened in 1767 on the corner of Union and Madison Streets next to the First Presbyterian Church. [2] At total of 17 veterans of the American Revolution and one representative to the New York Provincial Congress of 1775 are buried ...
The city of Charleston is the location of 105 of these properties and districts, including 34 of the National Historic Landmarks; they are listed here, while the other properties and districts in the remaining parts of the county are listed separately. Another property in Charleston was once listed but has been removed.
Guide to Sag Harbor Landmarks, Homes & History. Sag Harbor, N.Y.: The John Street Press in association with the Sag Harbor Historical Society. OCLC 54933955. Zaykowski, Dorothy Ingersoll (1991). Sag Harbor: The Story of an American Beauty. Sag Harbor, N.Y.: Sag Harbor Historical Society. ISBN 978-0-8488-0899-0.
The Eastville Community Historical Society of Sag Harbor (founded 1981) [3] also owns, maintains and preserves the adjacent century-old cemetery in which African and Native Americans of the post-colonial St. David's church membership are buried, of whom many were Sag Harbor whalers. [4]
St. David AME Zion Cemetery. During colonial times, the northwest of East Hampton village was the free black and Native Americans' enclave along the Indian path to Sag Harbor. When Sag Harbor became the first U.S. port of entry after Northwest Harbor in 1789, the Black and Native populations were relegated to Eastville, southeast of the town ...
Another 5 properties in Charleston County outside Charleston were once listed but have been removed. Three properties and districts — the Ashley River Historic District , Ashley River Road , and the Secessionville Historic District — are split between the city and the other parts of the county, and are thus included on both lists.
The Meigs Raid (also known as the Battle of Sag Harbor) was a military raid by American Continental Army forces, under the command of Connecticut Colonel Return Jonathan Meigs, on a British Loyalist foraging party at Sag Harbor, New York on May 24, 1777, during the American Revolutionary War. Six Loyalists were killed and 90 captured while the ...