• Episode 287: Colleton Square: Prelude to Market Street

  • Jul 19 2024
  • Length: 29 mins
  • Podcast

Episode 287: Colleton Square: Prelude to Market Street

  • Summary

  • 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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