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The square is bounded by Calhoun (south), Meeting (east), Tobacco (a pedestrian-only right-of-way that lies between the square and properties to the north) and King (west) Streets. The land is what remains from a 10-acre (40,000 m 2) parcel conveyed to the colony of South Carolina in 1758. When Joseph Wragg died, his son, John Wragg, received ...
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 is a city in and the county seat of Marion County, South Carolina, United States. [5] It is named for Francis Marion, a brigadier general from South Carolina in the American Revolutionary War. The population was 6,939 at the 2010 census.
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 ]
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.
Marion Historic District dates from 1800. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973 and its boundaries were increased in 1979. [ 1 ]
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]
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 ...