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Historic Columbia project aims to give Bull Street asylum patients "their names back
1+ day, 23+ hour ago (994+ words) Burial ground for white patients at the State Hospital for the Insane. Morning light filters through the towering windows of a former laundry building at the Bull Street campus, now quiet except for the hum of construction outside. Once, this…...
Mother-daughter duo publishes online map of dilapidated downtown Charleston buildings
2+ day, 23+ hour ago (838+ words) CHARLESTON " The first time Julie O'Connor visited the downtown building that would become her office she used a crowbar to pry plywood off the door and entered with a flashlight. The 800-square-foot building on Sheppard Street had suffered a fire…...
Hicks: It's the 165th anniversary of the Civil War, but the 200th (kinda) for Fort Sumter
4+ day, 23+ hour ago (706+ words) It took the feds 35 years to build Fort Sumter, and less than four to blow the top half of it to smithereens. What's left is a monument to just how much stays the same in these (for now) United States....
Commentary: College of Charleston shouldn't build on cemetery site
1+ week, 11+ hour ago (539+ words) The Council of South Carolina Professional Archaeologists opposes the College of Charleston's plan to construct a dormitory building on the site of a cemetery at 106 Coming St. , historically known as the "Strangers and Negroe Burying Ground." The proposal has the…...
Borick receives state history award
2+ week, 1+ day ago (109+ words) Post and Courier Charleston Museum Director Carl Borick is named the 2026 recipient of the Bobby Gilmer Moss History Award. COLUMBIA, S. C. " The South Carolina State Society Daughters of the American Revolution has named Charleston Museum Director Carl Borick as the 2026 recipient…...
What is the story behind the old coal tipple on the Cooper River?
2+ week, 2+ day ago (176+ words) Post and Courier Today, we followed the Cooper River north, letting the water guide the story rather than a destination. Along the river sits a structure that has outlived its original purpose " a coal tipple built in 1915, a reminder of…...
School students go back to colonial times during Living History Park's Education Day in North Augusta
2+ week, 2+ day ago (745+ words) Historical reenactor and North Augusta resident Ernest Mc Peake talks to school children during an Education Day at Living History Park in North Augusta March 20. A woman talks to children about common items during colonial times during an education at…...
South Carolina's founding documents will travel across the state this spring. Here's how to see them
2+ week, 3+ day ago (498+ words) Visitors viewed crucial historical documents from the American Revolution at the "Foundations of a Revolution: South Carolina, 17751777" exhibit at the South Carolina State House on March 26. COLUMBIA " History is traveling through South Carolina this spring. The S. C. Department of Archives and…...
Remembering first shot of Civil War
2+ week, 4+ day ago (82+ words) Post and Courier On April 11, Fort Sumter and Fort Moultrie National Historical Park on Sullivan's Island invites the public to commemorate the 165th anniversary of the opening shots of the American Civil War. The park will observe a fee-free day. The…...
A fortunate fall: Francis Marion's broken ankle and the Patriot cause
2+ week, 6+ day ago (372+ words) John Blake White, General Marion Inviting a British Officer to Share his Meal(1836) In the spring of 1780, a small accident involving Col. Francis Marion may have changed the course of the Revolutionary War in South Carolina. Marion scurried out of…...