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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMOIO_hobcaw-shipyards_Mt-Pleasant-SC.html
Shipyards built on Hobcaw Creek included Pritchard's Shipyard, the largest in colonial South Carolina.Notable ships launched there were the 180 ton Heart of Oak (1776) and the 200 ton Magna Carta (1770). The South Carolina Navy built and maintaine…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMOIN_hobcaw-point-powder-magazine_Mt-Pleasant-SC.html
In 1770, the South Carolina colonial government authorized construction of a powder magazine near the Wando River plantations and Hobcaw Point shipyards. A four-sided earthen embankment with a brick powder magazine and guardhouse stood near here f…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMOIM_hibben-house-british-occupation_Mt-Pleasant-SC.html
(Front):Hibben HouseA 1777 map shows a house on this property owned by Jacob Motte, Charleston City Treasurer. His 67 acre plantation called Mount Pleasant provided the name for the present town. James Hibben purchased the land in 1803. The home n…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMOIL_haddrells-point_Mt-Pleasant-SC.html
(Front):Haddrell's Point extended along the waterfront from Shem Creek to Cove Inlet and was named for George Haddrell, an early settler. The land bordering Shem Creek became home to important industries including factories, canneries, and rice an…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMOIK_the-ferry-tract_Mt-Pleasant-SC.html
In 1779, Andrew Hibben bought land on the south side of Shem Creek from Jacob Motte, which became known as the Ferry Tract. Until the opening of the Grace Memorial Bridge in August 1929, ferries connected Mount Pleasant to Charleston. Hibben's Fer…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMOIJ_etiwan-masonic-lodge_Mt-Pleasant-SC.html
On November 18, 1859, a Warrant of Constitution was granted to Etiwan Lodge No. 95 by the Most Worshipful Grand Lodge of Ancient Free Masons of South Carolina. The lodge organized under dispensation on February 19 and held their first meeting in T…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMOII_darby-building_Mt-Pleasant-SC.html
This building was constructed in 1884 as the Berkeley County Courthouse. Mount Pleasant servedas the Berkeley County seat from1883 to 1895, when the town rejoined Charleston County. The old courthouse, named in 1991 forformer Mayor G. Magrath Darb…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMOIH_cove-inlet_Mt-Pleasant-SC.html
Before the Revolutionary War, aplank bridge built on barrels wasconstructed across the inlet separating Mount Pleasant from Sullivan's Island. In 1864, the H.L.Hunley crew crossed the footbridge on the way to Breach Inlet to test dive the submarin…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMOIF_alhambra-hall_Mt-Pleasant-SC.html
In 1847, Charles Jugnot and Oliver Hillard, owners of Mount Pleasant Ferry Company, developed a picnic ground in a grove of live oaks, called Hort's Grove. They built the first Alhambra as a summer retreat and dance hall overlooking Charleston Har…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLBA_the-kings-highway-coleman-boulevard_Mt-Pleasant-SC.html
(Front):In the 1700s, the King's Highway began in Virginia and wound down the coast through the Carolinas. The section of road that passed through Mount Pleasant became one of the first coastal roadways serving as a colonial post road for the deli…