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The history of Charleston, South Carolina, is one of the longest and most diverse of any community in the United States, spanning hundreds of years of physical settlement beginning in 1670. Charleston was one of leading cities in the South from the colonial era to the Civil War in the 1860s.
1852 – Museum founded by the College of Charleston. [15] Sketches made in Charleston, South Carolina by artist Eyre Crowe in March 1853; 1853 – Elliott Society of Natural History established. [15] 1854 Young Men's Christian Association of Charleston [38] and B'rith Shalom congregation [34] established. Old Bethel United Methodist Church ...
April 5, 1760 27 William Bull II(1710-1791) April 5, 1760 – December 22, 1761 1st time: George III: 28 Thomas Boone(1730-1812) December 22, 1761 – May 14, 1764 Exiled to England William Bull II(1710-1791) May 14, 1764 – June 12, 1766 2nd time: 29 Charles Greville Montagu(1741-1784) June 12, 1766 – May 1768 1st time: William Bull II(1710 ...
Born on June 22, 1766, in Charleston, Province of South Carolina, British America, to William Henry Drayton and Dorothy Golightly, Drayton read law in 1788 at the Inner Temple in London, England. He engaged in private practice in Charleston, South Carolina in 1788, from 1789 to 1794, from 1796 to 1798, and from 1811 to 1812. He was a warden ...
The Charleston Hurricane of 1783 Charleston saw excessive rain and wind with the cyclone on October 7. Strongest reported tropical storm in Charleston since 1752. Winds shifted from northwest to northeast as the storm passed offshore. Extensive damage was also seen in North Carolina. Richmond saw violent northeast gusts for 24 hours, but no damage.
Our Southern Zion: A History of Calvinism in the South Carolina Low Country, 1690-1990; Coclanis, Peter A., "Global Perspectives on the Early Economic History of South Carolina," South Carolina Historical Magazine, 106 (April–July 2005), 130–46. Crane, Verner W. The Southern Frontier, 1670-1732
(Harvard University Press) 1963, a major scholarly history. Brown, Richard Maxwell. Strain of Violence: Historical Studies of American Violence and Vigilantism (Oxford UP, 1975) pp. 67–90. Johnson, D. Andrew. “The Regulation Reconsidered: Shared Grievances in the Colonial Carolinas” South Carolina Historical Magazine 114#2, (2013), pp ...
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.