Old Charleston Originals

Author : Margaret Middleton Rivers Eastman
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1625842058
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Old Charleston Originals written by Margaret Middleton Rivers Eastman and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2011-07-21 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Old Charleston Originals by prolific local author Margaret Eastman revives stories from the Holy City's incredible past. Preserved within these pages are tales from the swashbuckling early settlers, tales of the exclusive events thrown by Jockey Club, and the rise and fall of the maritime empire of George Alfred Trenholm, considered the inspiration for the legendary blockade runner Rhett Butler. Discover what caused a near massacre in the state house, how two determined Charleston ladies stopped a bulldozer, why a plantation home to be floated down the Cooper River and many more stories from Charleston's past.

Author : Margaret Middleton Rivers Eastman
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1614235317
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hidden History of Old Charleston written by Margaret Middleton Rivers Eastman and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2010-02-15 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Lowcountry's first recorded duel to old-fashioned summers at the 'hottest spot in town", these pages will captivate you with stories of people, events and places that have all but vanished from memory. Find out the real history behind some of Charleston's beloved mansions and learn about the early plantations and their owners. Join the authors as they relate the riots and romance, the preservation and politics - and even a ghost story - from Charleston's hidden history.

Author : Margaret Middleton Rivers Eastman
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1614236178
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hidden History of Civil War Charleston written by Margaret Middleton Rivers Eastman and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2012-07-31 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forgotten tales of Charleston's Civil War history have been collected into this new compendium for today's history lovers. In a city as old as Charleston, it's only natural for some stories to become less well-known over time, but the Palmetto State's history should never be forgotten entirely. Author Margaret Middleton Rivers Eastman recounts some of Charleston's amazing Civil War stories that have faded from memory, including the shady story of how an association of Charleston elites conspired to push South Carolina toward secession in 1860, and the Stone Fleet of old whaling ships that were sunk in Charleston Harbor in an attempt to choke out Confederate blockade runners, as well as a cast of real-life characters such as Amarinthia Yates Snowden, William Richard Catheart, and Tom Lockwood, just to name a few.

Author : Robert N. Rosen
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 1643361872
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Short History of Charleston written by Robert N. Rosen and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2021-05-07 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lively chronicle of the South's most renowned city from the founding of colonial Charles Town through the present day A Short History of Charleston—a lively chronicle of the South's most renowned and charming city—has been hailed by critics, historians, and especially Charlestonians as authoritative, witty, and entertaining. Beginning with the founding of colonial Charles Town and ending three hundred and fifty years later in the present day, Robert Rosen's fast-paced narrative takes the reader on a journey through the city's complicated history as a port to English settlers, a bloodstained battlefield, and a picturesque vacation mecca. Packed with anecdotes and enlivened by passages from diaries and letters, A Short History of Charleston recounts in vivid detail the port city's development from an outpost of the British Empire to a bustling, modern city. This revised and expanded edition includes a new final chapter on the decades since Joseph Riley was first elected mayor in 1975 through its rapid development in geographic size, population, and cultural importance. Rosen contemplates both the city's triumphs and its challenges, allowing readers to consider how Charleston's past has shaped its present and will continue to shape its future.

Author : John Bennett
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 1643361384
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Doctor to the Dead written by John Bennett and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2020-08-21 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of fantastical and macabre Gullah-inspired folklore that illuminates African-American life in nineteenth-century South Carolina. You ask for a story. I will tell you one, fact for fact and true for true. . . . So begins “Crook-Neck Dick,” one of twenty-three stories in this beguiling collection of Charleston lore. John Bennett’s interpretations of the legends shared with him by African-descended Charlestonians have entertained generations. Among them are tales of ghosts, conjuring, superhuman feats, and supernatural powers; accounts of ingenuity, humor, terror, mystery, and solidarity will enchant folklorists, students of Charleston history, and all those who love a good ghost story. Julia Eichelberger, the Marybelle Higgins Howe Professor of Southern Literature and an executive board member of the Center for Study of Slavery at the College of Charleston in South Carolina, provides an introduction. “A collection of folk story, myth, drolleries, macabre unreason . . . old tales of death, mystery, bizarre incredibilities, diabolic influence, demanding ghosts, buried treasure, enchantments, miracles, visitations, and the dead that are not dead.” —Kirkus Reviews

Author : Steve Gross
Publisher : Gibbs Smith
ISBN 13 : 1423638522
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Historic Charleston and the Lowcountry written by Steve Gross and published by Gibbs Smith. This book was released on 2016-09-13 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this elegant hardbound volume, photographers Steve Gross and Susan Daley take you on an intimate tour of some of the finest historic homes, gardens, churches, and plantations of the old city of Charleston and its surrounding Lowcountry. Their luminescent photographs reveal an insider's look at the definitive architecture and landscape of the region, ranging from private gardens hidden behind wrought iron gates to some of America's first landscaped garden vistas. From colonial-era French Quarter homes to Federal and Greek Revival townhouses and antebellum plantation houses, the selection featuring old family, private homes to museum showplaces make this an essential book for visitors, architects, preservationists or armchair travelers. Photographers Steve Gross and Susan Daley specialize in photographing interiors and the architecture of the changing American landscape. They are the coauthors of ten previous books on the various styles of American homes and design, including Creole Houses, Old Florida, and most recently Farmhouse Revival and The Creative Cottage. Their work has been published extensively in magazines around the world and is in private collections including the Smithsonian Institution

Author : Margaret Middleton Rivers Eastman
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1625843542
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Remembering Old Charleston written by Margaret Middleton Rivers Eastman and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2008-08-01 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These 'First Families' of Old Charleston- and others- are Lowcountry legends in their own right. Margaret Middleton Rivers Eastman takes readers behind parlor doors on a journey from the patrician historical area south of Broad Street to the luxurious Sea Island plantations in an unusual collection of treasured family traditions that span the colony's founding to the mid-twentieth century.

Author : Susan Sully
Publisher : Rizzoli International Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780847821013
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Charleston Style written by Susan Sully and published by Rizzoli International Publications. This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some 125 color photographs mark a charming tour through eighteen of Charleston's most legendary houses, discussing how a wide variety of styles blend beautifully to become a distinct, and sometimes eccentric, regional style with unique features such as huge piazzas. 10,000 first printing.

Author : Mary Preston Foster
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738517797
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Charleston written by Mary Preston Foster and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide book will help natives and visitors alike appreciate the history and residents of the beautiful city of Charleston, South Carolina, one of the South's great cultural destinations, which has endured periods of grandeur, occupation, a devastating earthquake, fires, hurricanes, and the challenges of Reconstruction. Original.

Author : Margaret Middleton Rivers Eastman
Publisher : Hidden History
ISBN 13 : 9781596298439
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hidden History of Old Charleston written by Margaret Middleton Rivers Eastman and published by Hidden History. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Lowcountry's first recorded duel to old-fashioned summers at the 'hottest spot in town, these pages will captivate you with stories of people, events and places that have all but vanished from memory. Find out the real history behind some of Charleston's beloved mansions and learn about the early plantations and their owners. Join the authors as they relate the riots and romance, the preservation and politics - and even a ghost story - from Charleston's hidden history.