Charleston Time Machine

De: Nic Butler Ph.D.
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  • Dr. Nic Butler, historian at the Charleston County Public Library, explores the less familiar corners of local history with stories that invite audiences to reflect on the enduring presence of the past in the Lowcountry of South Carolina.
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  • Episode 289: Policing Rural Charleston, from Colonial Posse to County Sheriff

    Episode 289: Policing Rural Charleston, from Colonial Posse to County Sheriff
    Aug 16 2024
    From the dawn of the Carolina Colony to the early twentieth century, residents of rural Charleston County enjoyed no police protection beyond their own vigilance. Ancient customs, imported from England and transformed by the institution of slavery, obliged free men to patrol their own neighborhoods on horseback, apprehend lawbreakers, and deliver them to justice. A paid rural police force gradually emerged in the early 1900s, fostered by the proliferation of automobiles, and eventually led to the creation of the modern Sheriff’s Department in 1991.
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    27 m
  • Episode 288: Charleston's Forgotten First Orphan House, 1790–94

    Episode 288: Charleston's Forgotten First Orphan House, 1790–94
    Aug 2 2024
    Shortly after the creation of the nation’s first municipal orphanage in 1790, the citizens of Charleston contributed generously to the construction of a large and well-documented edifice on Boundary (now Calhoun) Street that housed thousands of children between 1794 and 1951. The location of the institution’s initial home, visited by President George Washington in May 1791, is far less remembered, however. A search for clues to the location of Charleston’s first Orphan House leads to a forgotten Pinckney family property in the heart of Colleton Square.
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    28 m
  • Episode 287: Colleton Square: Prelude to Market Street

    Episode 287: Colleton Square: Prelude to Market Street
    Jul 19 2024
    Colleton Square is a place-name rarely heard in Charleston today, but millions of people tramp through its historic boundaries every year. Granted to an aristocratic English family in 1681, the creek-side tract was subdivided in the 1740s by investors who envisioned a residential and commercial neighborhood fronting a working canal. Their efforts flourished after the removal of intrusive fortifications, but the subsequent transformation of the canal into Market Street at the dawn of the nineteenth century obscured the character and identity of the colonial square.
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    29 m
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