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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM19WW_charleston-city-market_Charleston-SC.html
On this site stands one of Charleston's oldest public facilities in continuous use: the Charleston Market. Earlier markets, dating back to the city's relocation to the peninsula, ca. 1680, offered meat, fish, and vegetables at different sites. Aft…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM19W1_palmetto-fort_Sullivans-Island-SC.html
In 1776 South Carolinians prepared for a British invasion by building a fort on this site. This key position on Sullivans Island, beside the main ship channel, protected the entrance to Charleston Harbor.
The fort was designed as a 500-foot squ…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM19VY_charleston-surrenders_Sullivans-Island-SC.html
Almost four years after their defeat at the palmetto log fort in 1776, the British returned to Charleston with a larger force, new tactics, and respect for Fort Moultrie. The British did not repeat their earlier mistakes.
A British fleet of 96 …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM19VR_british-attack_Sullivans-Island-SC.html
Confident of victory, British Admiral Peter Parker led his fleet of nine warships in an attack on the palmetto log fort, June 28, 1776. Parker's ships anchored only 400 yards from here, firing thundering broadsides in the nine-hour battle.
The …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM19VO_harbor-defense_Sullivans-Island-SC.html
America's attention turned away from warfare when the Civil War ended and seacoast defenses, including Fort Moultrie, deteriorated. But another crisis wasn't long in coming - disputes with Great Britain in 1872 over the Alabama claims resulted in …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM19VB_powder-magazine_Sullivans-Island-SC.html
"Keep your powder dry" is a time-worn expression today, but it was vital advice for gunners of the 19th century. This powder magazine was designed to keep the fort's supply of black powder safe, dry, and away from flame. The thick walls and solid…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM19V9_building-forts_Sullivans-Island-SC.html
In the days before power equipment existed fort building took muscle, sweat and ingenuity, and the big brick forts such as Moultrie III and Sumter required masons of unsurpassed skill. Most of the labor on the first two forts built of sand, palme…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM19V6_fort-moultrie-ii_Sullivans-Island-SC.html
Fort Moultrie II was an enclosed five-sided earthwork, partly faced with brick, surrounded by a ditch and glacis. Within the fort were a hot-shot furnace, powder magazine and bombproof. Officers' quarters, enlisted men's barracks, and the bake ov…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM19V2_cigar-factory-we-shall-overcome_Charleston-SC.html
Cigar FactoryThis five-story commercial building, built in 1882 as a textile mill, was known as the Charleston Manufacturing Company, then Charleston Cotton Mills, in its early years. Leased to the American Tobacco Company in 1903, the plant was s…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM19V0_battery-reed_Charleston-SC.html
Here stoodBattery Reedcommanded byLt. Col.Ellison Capers,June 16, 1862.