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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMSO4_uss-pollack-ssn-603-uss-haddo-ssn-604_Mt-Pleasant-SC.html
The initial two nuclear attack submarineshome ported in Charleston
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQRJ_confederate-cemetery-memorial_Mt-Pleasant-SC.html
South face By the united efforts and enduring sacrifices of the Noble woman of Mount Pleasant and Charleston. The zealous and tender custodians of the slumbering Heroes of a lost cause. This Monument has been erected as a tribute of devotion…
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Erected about 1854 and originally a Congregational Church affiliated with Old Wappetaw Church, founded about 1699. Served as a Confederate hospital during the Civil War, then briefly housed the Laing School for freedmen during Reconstruction. Was …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQEQ_war-of-1812-encampment_Mt-Pleasant-SC.html
(Front text) On June 18, 1812, the United States declared war against Great Britain. One of the first units to be mustered into service was the Third Regiment of South Carolina Militia, which was stationed at Haddrell's Point, west of here, to aid…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQD2_pitt-street-merchants_Mt-Pleasant-SC.html
By the middle of the 20th Century, the residents of the old village shopped on Pitt Street. This area included grocery, hardware, and department stores; a dress shop, doctors' offices, the pharmacy, barber shop, post office, and Mount Pleasant Aca…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQD1_laing-school_Mt-Pleasant-SC.html
(Front text) Laing School located here from 1868 to 1953 was founded in 1866 by Cornelia Hancock, a Quaker who had served as a nurse with the Union Army during the Civil War. First housed in Mount PleasantPresbyterian Church, Laing Industrial Scho…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQD0_friendship-a-m-e-church_Mt-Pleasant-SC.html
(Front text) This church, founded during Reconstruction, has been at the same site since 1890. The first sanctuary serving this congregation was located on Hibben Street and built on a lot leased by the Town of Mount Pleasant in 1877. After moving…
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This family cemetery is also known as the Hobcaw Cemetery, the Bond Family Cemetery, and the Read Family Cemetery.Only fragments of the old gravestones remain. It is likely that the cemetery was first used in 1713 to bury David Maybank, the origin…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQ4Q_sweetgrass-baskets_Mt-Pleasant-SC.html
Coil baskets of native sweetgrass and pine needles sewn with strips of palmetto leaf have been displayed for sale on stands along Highway 17 near Mount Pleasant since the 1930s. This craft, handed down in certain families since the 1700s, original…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQ0R_christ-church_Mt-Pleasant-SC.html
Foundation Laid in 1707The first clergyman in 1708Rev.Edward Marston and Vestry follows David Maybank and Henry Gill, Wardens Thomas Barton, William Capers, Leonard Hickman, John Simes, Richard Fairchild, John Hale, and Nathaniel Loughton.The Chur…
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