Category: History

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…

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…

As downtown residents may recall, for more than half a century the southwest corner of King and Tradd Streets was an anomaly in the densely developed, predominantly residential district south of Broad Street. Positioned on the diagonal to the intersection, the 139-square-foot Boxx Service Station, also known as the Fort Sumter Filling Station, stood as…

December 8, 2016 marks the 64th anniversary of the death of Thomas Mayhem Pinckney, a relatively obscure yet integral, early figure in the preservation movement in Charleston. An African American craftsman, Pinckney’s life inspired the Preservation Society to name a special committee after him in 2012. The Thomas Mayhem Pinckney Alliance is dedicated to recognizing and…