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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMCLX_city-market_Charleston-SC.html
Here was erected between1788 and 1804 a public market onland ceded to City Council byCharles Cotesworth PinckneyEt Al...work of filling in lowground and creek completed in 1807; and six blocks of buildingsconstucted extending fromMeeting Street to…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMCLW_historical-sketch_Charleston-SC.html
This site was the home of the Episcopal Church of the Redeemer. In 1745, Chief Justice of South Carolina Charles Pinckney purchased the property known as Collenton Square. In 1853 Miss Pinckney donated property for a chapel to be built where visit…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMCLS_stede-bonnet-richard-worley_Charleston-SC.html
Near this spot in the autumn of 1718, Stede Bonnet, Notorious "Gentleman Pirate", and twenty nine of his men, captured by Colonel William Rhett, met their just deserts after a trial and charge, famous in American history, by Chief Justice Nicholas…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMCLR_hurricane-hugo_Charleston-SC.html
On the night of September 21, 1989, Hurricane Hugo struck the South Carolina Lowcountry. During that night winds reached 125 miles per hour and a storm surge of 15 feet swept over nearby McClellanville. The eye of Hugo passed over Charleston at mi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMCLQ_uss-pringle-dd-477_Charleston-SC.html
Launched at Charleston, S.C. on May 2, 1942Lost to Enemy Action off Okinawa on April 16,1945
In MemoriamVella Lavella - August 21, 1943John Villani · Ernest F. Whitehead
Mindoro - December 30, 1944James F. Bennett · Thomas F. F…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMCLP_william-gilmore-simms_Charleston-SC.html
William Gilmore Simms1806 - 1879Author, Journalist, Historian
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMCLN_to-the-defenders-of-fort-moultrie_Charleston-SC.html
[Front of Monument:][Upper Plaque:]SecondSouth CarolinaRegimentArmy of theRevolutionOrganizedJune 17, 1775[Lower Plaque:]"To theDefendersOfFort MoultrieJune The 28th1776"
[Engraved in Base:]"No men ever did and it is impossiblethat any can beha…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMCL5_uss-hobson-tribute_Charleston-SC.html
(Marker Front):To the Glory of God and in Abiding Memory of 176 valiant young men of the United States Navy who made the supreme sacrifice in the service of our country
The USS Hobson (DMS 26) sank in less than four minutes as a result of a col…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMCL0_thirteen-inch-mortar_Charleston-SC.html
This mortar and its three mates were first used by Federal troops for the bombardment of Fort Sumter in October, 1863. They may well form the world's largest collection of this type weapon.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMCKS_calhoun_Charleston-SC.html
This Monument was erected bythe women of South Carolina in 1896 to John Caldwell Calhounin commemoration of his eminentStatesmanship during the manyyears of his public life - it replaces one formerly on the same spot which proved unsatisfactory.Th…