Read the original Post and Courier article here Dr. Ade Ofunniyin, founder and director of The Gullah Society, visiting a cemetery at the end of Monrovia Street on Feb. 27, 2018. File/Brad Nettles/Staff /Brad Nettles bnettles@postandcourier.com The Gullah Society, a nonprofit founded by the late Ade Ofunniyin that sought to document and protect Black cemeteries […]
Read the original Patch.com article here Press release from the City of Salem: August 4, 2021 On September 13-14, 2021, the City of Salem and the Salem Preservation Partners, together with Keeping History Above Water®, a national initiative of the Newport Restoration Foundation, will host a two-day workshop in Salem to address climate change impacts […]
Read the original Post and Courier article here The map of the Phillips Community shows the community’s boundaries. PROVIDED/CHARLESTON COUNTY At first blush, the town of Mount Pleasant’s move to annex 9 acres of mostly undeveloped property in the Phillips Community seems ill-advised. Parallel efforts are underway to list the historic African American settlement community on […]
Read the original New York Times article here After years of flooding, Allen and Lee Kaplan decided to hoist their historic two-story Charleston, S.C., home roughly six feet into the air. Credit…Cameron Pollack for The New York Times CHARLESTON, S.C. — Over the course of 150 years, the generations who lived in the handsome house […]
Read the original ABC 4 news article here CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCIV) — An abandoned burial site is getting some renewed attention following a construction project. The home at 88 Smith Street is located on the site of two African American burial grounds. A stop-work order was issued for the property earlier this month after city officials […]
Read the original Post and Courier article here The city of Charleston temporarily halted work on the exterior of 88 Smith St. because at least two abandoned graveyards were located on the property. Lauren Petracca/Staff By Lauren Petracca lpetracca@postandcourier.com We’ve seen two regrettable incidents recently that show the growing tension between respecting the dead from […]