Preservation Society of Charleston

Tag: Heriot Street Cemetery

  • Remembering the Heriot Street Cemetery

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    On an unassuming property at the peninsula’s northern edge, the land holds more than it appears. The Heriot Street Cemetery has scant remaining evidence of the lives interred there. The majority of its headstones are overgrown. But ongoing research reveals that this forgotten burial ground is the final resting place of over 1300 Charlestonians of…