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CHARLESTON, SC 29401

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and they could not be more different 💙

📍569-571 King: c. 1840s-1880s, one of the oldest on Upper King Street and still owned by the descendants of Civil Rights-era leaders Esau and Janie Jenkins

📍40 Laurens: c. 1809, a large merchant dwelling t

LOUDER FOR THOSE IN THE BACK: Morris Street is one of the most underrated historic streets in Charleston. Here’s my latest proof.

No. 87 Morris Street dates to the late 1850s but sits on land that was once part of a vast early nineteenth-centu

📍SOL LEGARE, JAMES ISLAND

As my friend @coreen224 says, it’s so much more than a tree.

Please join us in urging county BZA to deny a variance request that would allow the removal of this oak on Richardson Road in Sol Legare for a road to gr

In 1903, Charleston was evolving in so many ways. The city’s leading businessmen - many born and raised within its limits - strove to push Charleston into the twentieth century, eager to prove to the world that the city was “modern”

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