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The Charleston Cemeteries Historic District encompasses a cluster of 23 cemeteries north of downtown Charleston, South Carolina.Laid out on either side of Huguenin Street in the northern part of peninsular Charleston, they were laid out between 1849 and 1956, and represented a concentrated diversity in funerary art and cemetery landscape design practices.
Find a Grave is a website that allows the public to search and add to an online database of human and pet cemetery records. It is owned by Ancestry.com . Its stated mission is "to help people from all over the world work together to find, record and present final disposition information as a virtual cemetery experience."
Old White Meeting House Ruins and Cemetery is a historic site near Summerville, Dorchester County, South Carolina. The meeting house was built about 1700, burned during the American Revolution in 1781, rebuilt in 1794, then reduced to ruins by the Charleston earthquake of 1886. The extant ruins include portions of each corner – the largest ...
Barnstaple Cemetery (properly Bear Street Cemetery) is the burial ground for the town of Barnstaple in Devon and is managed by North Devon Council. [1] The cemetery opened in 1856 for the Barnstaple Burial Board and extends over an area of 13.2 acres and is bisected by a stream between the two slopes on which the cemetery is laid out.
Researchers excavated five unmarked graves at the cemetery in 1999 in an effort to find Samuel Washington’s resting place. They recovered small bones and teeth from three burials, but DNA ...
A Short History of Charleston. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press. ISBN 978-1643361864. Sellers, Leila (December 2012). Charleston Business on the Eve of the American Revolution (Reprint ed.). Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 978-1469608570. Simkins, Francis Butler; Woody, Robert Henley (1966).
Magnolia Cemetery is a historic rural cemetery in Charleston, South Carolina. [2] [3] The first board for the cemetery was assembled in 1849. Edward C. Jones served as the architect. [4] It was dedicated in 1850; Charles Fraser delivered the dedication address. [5] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as a Historic District ...
Fan tracery ceiling. Francis D. Lee, a Charleston architect and church member, was hired in 1852 to enlarge and remodel the building.Inspired by architecture such as is seen in the Chapel of Henry VII at Westminster Abbey and St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle, Lee completed the project two years later in partnership with Edward C, Jones, a local architect with more experience then Lee.