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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMWDR_colonel-john-stuart-house_Charleston-SC.html
National Historic Landmark Born 1718, Inverness, Stuart was related to ScottishRoyality. Educated in London, he circumnavigatedthe globe aboard Centurion, Adm. Lord Ansoncommanding, capturing the Spanish treasure galleon, De Cavodonga, in 1743;…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMWDL_the-samuel-wainwright-house_Charleston-SC.html
This advertisement appeared in the S.C. Gazette on 6th Jan., 1784, following Mr. Wainwright's death
"On WEDNESDAY the 28th of JANUARY in§t. WILL BE SOLD by Order of the Hon. Cornelius Dupont, E§q.
that capital and well known HOUSE, No. 77,…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMWDI_the-reverend-paul-trapier-gervais-house_Charleston-SC.html
This notable three and one half story single house is situated on lot number 233 of the Grand Modell as granted by the Lords Proprietors in 1694. This remains one of the largest residential lots in the city. The present house was built by the Reve…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMWC1_county-of-charleston-historic-courthouse_Charleston-SC.html
Originally built in 1753, the building was constructed as South Carolina's first and only colonial Statehouse. From 1756 to 1788, the Statehouse was the seat of the Royal British Governor, the Colonial Assembly and the central meeting place for So…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMWBN_23-tradd-street_Charleston-SC.html
This three-story stucco house with a clay tile hip roof was built by Charleston merchant William Bell following the destruction of an earlier residence by fire in 1778. The fire, the second of five great Charleston fires between 1740 and 1860, des…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMWBM_26-tradd-street_Charleston-SC.html
This town house was constructed by Adam Ewing, a Scots merchant, for his residence and place of business. He and his partner Robert Ewing (who bore the same surname but was no relation) had their counting house in the front room of the ground floo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMWBK_the-tavern_Charleston-SC.html
Through recently discovered documents and maps found in Scotland and the Netherlands, a Seafarer's Tavern was on this site in or around 1686.
Located on Charleston's working waterfront for three centuries, it has had many names: The Tavern on t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMWBJ_site-of-the-first-methodist-church_Charleston-SC.html
Established in 1785 under the leadershipof Bishop Francis Asbury, the first MethodistSociety in Charleston purchased a lot inCumberland Street and erected a churchhere in 1786. Long known as the Blue MeetingHouse because of its color and to distin…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMWBI_as-old-as-charleston_Charleston-SC.html
The Tavern has been a spirited part of Charleston's history since the late 17th century.
From the early seaport days, through pirate attacks, the Revolution and Civil War, earthquakes and hurricanes, Prohibition and the Great Depression, the Ta…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMWBF_edgar-wells-house_Charleston-SC.html
In the 1780s, it was owned and occupied byDr. George Hahnbaum,physician to the Germanfusiliers and later afounder of the MedicalSociety of South Carolina.The trajectory of a cannonball can be traced through thetimbers of the house.