Charleston Time Machine

By: 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 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 mins
  • 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 mins
  • Episode 286: The Charleston Gunpowder Plot of 1731, Part 2

    Episode 286: The Charleston Gunpowder Plot of 1731, Part 2
    Jun 28 2024
    During their year-long incarceration, the criminal trio accused of plotting to blow up Charleston’s powder magazine had ample time to argue among themselves and plan their escape from the insecure jail. Only two of the villains survived to face the king’s law in the spring of 1732, prompting suspicion of foul play at the prison. In the dramatic conclusion of this explosive story, we’ll learn who escaped the gallows and why the government’s efforts to close the dangerous magazine dragged on to the summer of 1746.
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    28 mins
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