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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQRK_riviera-theatre_Charleston-SC.html
The Riviera Theatre was constructed in 1939 by Albert Sottile, President of Pastime Amusement Company. The Art Deco architecture is in the Egyptian style. It served the Charleston community as a motion theatre until 1978. The theatre is situated o…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQR6_passengers-and-products_Charleston-SC.html
Welcome to Camden Tower Courtyard. This space and the warehouses you see along the walkway are a part of the William Aiken House and Associated Railroad Structures National Historic Landmark. This landmark includes the William Aiken House, located…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQQN_the-railroad-comes-to-charleston_Charleston-SC.html
The first passenger railroad began operation in England in 1825. Word of this new kind of transportation quickly spread across the Atlantic. Charleston businessmen, suffering through a severe recession in the 1820s, were eager to explore this chea…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQQ3_building-a-nation_Charleston-SC.html
Between 1862 and 1885, the United States undertook construction of a railroad to connect the East with the West. The Central Pacific Railroad was built 742 miles eastward from Sacramento. The Union Pacific was built 1,038 miles westward from Omaha…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQP9_bound-for-glory_Charleston-SC.html
There is no doubt that the railroad definedan American culture and personality thatis distinct from its European roots. At itsheart, the railroad was a nation builder - thepersonification of the brash, entrepreneurial spirit that the rest of the w…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQOI_the-civil-war-submarine-h-l-hunley_Charleston-SC.html
Brought from Mobile, Alabama in August 1863 to help defeat the Union navalblockade of Charleston, H.L. Hunleybecame the first submarine in historyto sink an enemy ship. Armed with a spar-mounted torpedo, it sank theFederal blockading vessel, Hous…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQN4_william-aiken-house_Charleston-SC.html
Built between 1807 and 1811, the east wing was added after 1831. Residence of William Aiken, first president (1828-1831) of the South Carolina Canal and Rail Road Company. This company inaugurated theAmerican steam railroad era at Charleston, Chri…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQKX_burke-high-school_Charleston-SC.html
Founded as a private school for elementary students in 1894 by Rev. John Dart at the corner of Bogard and Krake Streets, Charleston Normal and Industrial School was approved to become a public school for "colored" children in 1910 and opened at th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQJT_battery-haskell_Charleston-SC.html
(Front text) This two-gun Confederate artillery battery and magazine is all that remains of Battery Haskell, a large fortification built on Legare's Point in 1863 to help defend James and Morris Islands. This two-gun battery was just behind the le…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQHN_burke-high-school_Charleston-SC.html
(Front text) This school, founded in 1910, was the first public high school for African-Americans in Charleston. It succeeded the Charleston Normal & Industrial School, a private school at Bogard & Kracke Streets, which had been founded in 1894 by…