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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1AAY_henry-bourne-joy-and-the-lincoln-highway_Charleston-WY.html
?????This was the original location of the Henry B. Joy Lincoln Highway Monument placed in 1938 following Joy's death. Henry Bourne Joy was president of the Packard Motor Car Company and the first president of the Lincoln Highway Association. The …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1AAX_harnessing-the-wind_Charleston-SC.html
The "motor" of a sailing ship is its masts and rigging, which hold canvas sails to catch the power of the wind. Skilled captains manipulated different sails to harness any available breeze. A favorable tailwind would fill the large main sails and …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1AAW_seized_Charleston-SC.html
Thomas Gray and John Pinkerd stood accused of "Acts of delinquency and rebellion committed in and aboard the sloop by the said Gray and his confederates." As fugitives wanted by the Colony of Carolina, the outlaws fled Charles Towne, leaving their…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1AAU_ship-shaping_Charleston-SC.html
This ship skeleton depicts the earliest stage of shipbuilding - hull construction. It starts with the ship's backbone, or keel, and then the stern, ribs, and sternpost are attached.
This skeleton is built to the same scale as the fully finished…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1AA9_300th-anniversary-of-the-settlement-of-charles-towne_Charleston-SC.html
? ? ? On the occasion of the 300th Anniversary of the Settlement of Charles Towne, the South Carolina Tricentennial Commission acquired this original site for a permanent historic park and nature preserve.
? ? ? Ten years after the original la…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1AA6_in-trust_Charleston-SC.html
"We don't own any land and we don't own any house. God has given it to us in trust, to make into something better during our lifetime." - Ferdinanda Waring, upon selling this property to the state.
Ferdinanda Legare Waring transformed Old Town…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1AA5_the-search-goes-on_Charleston-SC.html
Even though archaeologists found the complex fortifications of Charles Towne, the actual town has proved elusive. To date, only one building has been discovered.
Possibly the evidence lies under our feet awaiting discovery. Or, the settlement m…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1AA4_stained-dirt_Charleston-SC.html
Fearing attack, the people of Charles Towne Landing needed a defensive wall - the taller, the better. So they dug a ditch, piling the dirt along one edge. By constructing a palisade upon that heaped-up foundation, they would have forced attackers …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1AA3_seeking-wealth-sowing-servitude_Charleston-SC.html
Land abounded in the new Carolina colony. The challenge lay in finding a money-making crop and a labor force to produce it.
The Lords Proprietors who funded the colony directed the colonists to experiment in order to determine which crops would…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1AA2_buildings-all-of-wood_Charleston-SC.html
This small shed represents the construction techniques that might have been used at early Charles Towne. It is not a reconstruction of a specific building, and as far as we know there was never an actual building or garden located on this exact sp…