While you’re stuck at home, we would like to share with you some of our favorite places in Charleston. Join the Preservation Society every week, as we share a virtual tour through the diverse burial grounds of the Charleston Cemetery Historic District! Bethany Cemetery was established by St. Matthew’s Evangelical Lutheran Church in 1856. The congregation was founded in […]
While you’re stuck at home, we would like to share with you some of our favorite places in Charleston. Join the Preservation Society every week, as we share a virtual tour through the diverse burial grounds of the Charleston Cemetery Historic District! Beginning in the late 18th century, a growing population of free African Americans began to form benevolent […]
Published April 1, 2020 As the Carnival Sunshine remains docked at the State Ports Authority’s (SPA) Columbus Street Terminal just north of Union Pier due to the COVID-19 pandemic, community conversation is steadily increasing around the need for shore power, stronger environmental regulations, and better public health practices. While the community is focusing back in on this […]
Published April 1, 2020 Expected to come for an “information only” review at the next meeting of the Planning Commission is the proposed rezoning of Laurel Island as a high-density, mixed-use Planned Unit Development (PUD). This is the initial step in the approval process for one of the peninsula’s largest and most impactful projects in recent history. Located just north of […]
While you’re stuck at home, we would like to share with you some of our favorite places in Charleston. Join the Preservation Society every week, as we share a virtual tour through the diverse burial grounds of the Charleston Cemetery Historic District! Incorporated in 1849, Magnolia Cemetery’s founders hired local architect Edward C. Jones to design the grounds and […]