Washington Square is a park in downtown Charleston,South Carolina. It is located behind City Hall at the corner of Meeting Street and Broad Street in the Charleston Historic District. The planting beds and red brick walks were installed in April 1881. It was known as City Hall Park until October 19,1881,when it was renamed in honor of George Washington. The new name was painted over the gates in December 1881.
Joseph Patrick Riley Jr. is an American politician who was the Mayor of Charleston,South Carolina. He was one of the longest serving mayors in the United States that is still living,having served 10 terms starting on December 15,1975,and ending on January 11,2016.
Burnet Rhett Maybank was a three-term US senator,the 99th governor of South Carolina,and mayor of Charleston,South Carolina. He was the first governor from Charleston since the American Civil War (1861-1865) and one of twenty people in United States history to have been elected mayor,governor,and United States senator. During his tenure in the Senate,Maybank was a powerful ally of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. His unexpected death on September 1,1954,from a heart attack,led to Strom Thurmond being elected senator.
The City Market is a historic market complex in downtown Charleston,South Carolina. Established in the 1790s,the market stretches for four city blocks from the architecturally-significant Market Hall,which faces Meeting Street,through a continuous series of one-story market sheds,the last of which terminates at East Bay Street. The market should not be confused with the Old Slave Mart where enslaved people were sold,as enslaved people were never sold in the City Market. The City Market Hall has been described as a building of the "highest architectural design quality." The entire complex was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as Market Hall and Sheds and was further designated a National Historic Landmark.
Magnolia Cemetery is a historic rural cemetery in Charleston,South Carolina. The first board for the cemetery was assembled in 1849 with Edward C. Jones as the architect. It was dedicated in 1850;Charles Fraser delivered the dedication address. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as a Historic District in 1978.
Thomas Roper (1760-1829) was the tenth intendent (mayor) of Charleston,South Carolina,serving two terms between 1799 and 1801. As mayor of Charleston,he was influential in the move to build a chapel at the Charleston Orphan House;it was completed in 1801. He died on April 15,1829,and is buried in the graveyard at St. Philips in Charleston,South Carolina. Because his only son died without an heir in 1845,Col. Roper's real estate on East Battery and Queen Streets passed to the Medical Society of South Carolina. Roper Hospital is named in his honor.
William McG. Morrison was the fifty-seventh mayor of Charleston,South Carolina,serving between two terms between 1947 and 1959. He was the first person elected to three terms as mayor of Charleston as a result of his win in June 1955. He lost his fourth bid by 455 votes to J. Palmer Gaillard,Jr. on June 9,1959.
Thomas Porcher Stoney was the fifty-third mayor of Charleston,South Carolina,serving between 1923 and 1931.
Arthur Bonnell Schirmer Jr. was the fifty-ninth mayor of Charleston,South Carolina,completing the final four months of J. Palmer Gaillard,after Gaillard's resignation. He did not run for election for a full term.
E. Edward Wehman Jr. was the fifty-sixth mayor of Charleston,South Carolina,completing the term of Henry Whilden Lockwood and not running for reelection. He was born on December 27,1891,in Charleston,South Carolina to E.E. and Bertha T. Wehman. He attended West Point in 1911 and 1912 and received a bachelor of science degree from the University of South Carolina. When Dwight D. Eisenhower,a classmate of Wehman's at West Point,was elected president,Wehman served as one of the eight electors from South Carolina.
Robert Goodwyn Rhett (1862–1939) was the fiftieth mayor of Charleston,South Carolina,completing two terms from 1903 to 1911. From 1916 to 1918,he served as president of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States.
Johann Andreas Wagener (1816-1876) was the forty-third mayor of Charleston,South Carolina,serving one term from 1871 to 1873. He also served as an officer in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.
Peter Charles Gaillard (1812-1889) was the thirty-eighth mayor of Charleston,South Carolina,serving in 1865-1868. He was the last mayor elected before the Civil War.
William W. Sale was the forty-fifth mayor of Charleston,South Carolina,serving one term from 1877 to 1879. He was born in September 1819 in South Carolina and married Edith Cleapor in about 1871. Before being elected,Sale worked as a teller at the First National Bank in Charleston. Sale was endorsed by the Charleston News &Courier,and he was elected on December 11,1877 by a margin of 5,288 to 1,924 in an election against D.F. Fleming. Sale was inducted on December 17,1877. As mayor,Sale lived on Chinquapin Street. After leaving office,he was the master of the Charleston Alms House. In 1900,he was living in Summerville,South Carolina.
John Huger was the sixth intendent (mayor) of Charleston,South Carolina,serving two terms from 1792 to 1794. He laid the cornerstone of the Charleston Orphan House,one of the city's most notable buildings,on November 12,1792. Before the Revolutionary War,he had been a member of the Commons House of Assembly and a member of the Council of Safety,the group that organized revolutionary movements in Charleston. The location of Huger's estate,Hagan Plantation,was included in an almost 5,000 acre conservation easement.
Charles Burnham Cochran was the fifteenth intendant (mayor) of Charleston,South Carolina,serving one term from 1805 to 1806. He was elected on September 9,1805. At the time,he lived at the house then-numbered 67 Meeting Street,Charleston,South Carolina. He had previously served as the federal marshal of the South Carolina District from 1795 to 1802. In 1806,he was elected treasurer of South Carolina for the lower division. Cochran died on August 21,1833.
John Dawson Jr. was the sixteenth intendant (mayor) of Charleston,South Carolina,serving two terms from 1806 to 1808.
Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church,colloquially Mother Emanuel,is a church in Charleston,South Carolina,founded in 1817. It is the oldest AME church in the Southern United States;founded the previous year in Philadelphia,Pennsylvania,AME was the first independent black denomination in the nation. Mother Emanuel has one of the oldest black congregations south of Baltimore.
The Charleston sanitation strike was a more than two-month movement in Charleston,South Carolina that protested the pay and working conditions of Charleston's overwhelmingly African-American sanitation workers.
The Charleston City Hall is a building designed by Gabriel Manigault. The city bought the building and began using it as Charleston's City Hall in 1819,making it the second longest serving city hall in the United States.
