Tag: African American Settlement Communities
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Preservation Victories for Phillips Community
Aerial showing Phillips on right, suburban development on left, courtesy of Coastal Conservation League The Phillips Community has had a string of preservation victories that we are excited to share with you! From progress on the National Register nomination, to designation as Charleston County’s first historic district, to minimized impacts from the Highway 41 project, there…
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Mount Pleasant community designated ‘historic district’, attempts to thwart highway project
Read the original Live 5 news story here. MOUNT PLEASANT, S.C. (WCSC) – The Phillips Community in Mount Pleasant is now designated as a historic district. Charleston County Council voted on the ordinance last night and the designation provides protection to the historic black settlement communities. People in the community have said the area is…
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Editorial: Annexation or no, protect Phillips Community from denser development
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…
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Settlement community seeks county historic designation
Read the original Post and Courier article here The map of the Phillips Community shows the community’s boundaries. PROVIDED/CHARLESTON COUNTY One of the oldest planned settlement communities in Charleston County looks to add its name to a new list. The Phillips Community, located off U.S. Highway 41 near Horlbeck Creek in Mount Pleasant, is in…
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Phillips Community meets 5 criteria outlined in ordinance to become Historic District
Read the original Count on 2 article here. MOUNT PLEASANT, S.C. (WCBD) – On Tuesday, the Charleston County Council heard their first request for the designations of a historic district. The area in question, known as the Phillips Community. The Historic Charleston Foundation, familiar with the ordinance that would declare the Phillips Community a historic district announced at the…
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Advocacy Alert: Highway 41 Revised County Steps Up for Phillips Community
Map of revised plan for the Highway 41 Improvement Project Yesterday, Charleston County Council voted to advance a new preferred alternative for the Highway 41 Improvement Project as an effort to reduce impacts to the Phillips Community in Mt. Pleasant. We are encouraged by the direction of the new plan, which diverts traffic around Phillips on a…
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Phillips Community Update
Left: ABC News 4 coverage of efforts to list Phillips on the National Register; right: CHS Today piece on Phillips preservation efforts There was a flurry of positive media last week around the work the Preservation Society is undertaking alongside…
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Grant Awarded for Phillips Community National Register Nomination
Last month, the PSC received the exciting news that the National Trust for Historic Preservation awarded a grant in support of the nomination of the Phillips Community to the National Register of Historic Places. Under constant threat of encroaching suburban development, a National Register designation will be critical to…
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Phillips Community Threatened by Highway Road Widening
On Thursday September 3, the PSC attended a community meeting on the impacts of the Alternative 1 proposal to widen Highway 41 through the Phillips Community, led by Phillips Community Association president and vice president Richard Habersham and Jonathan Ford. Photo courtesy of the Post and Courier. Tomorrow, Friday, September 11, is the last day to submit…
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Advocacy Alert: Historic Phillips Community Threatened
A current Charleston County proposal to widen Highway 41 in Mount Pleasant would negatively and irreparably affect the Phillips community, an intact African American settlement community founded in the late-19th century. Join the PSC in opposing the proposed Alternative 1 in favor of Alternative 7A that would relieve congestion and improve safety without adversely impacting this important, historic…