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Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Charleston City or County, South Carolina. Official Website History of Charleston Charleston was founded in 1670 as Charles Town, honoring King Charles II of England. Its initial location at Albemarle Point on the west bank of the Ashley River (now Charles Towne Landing) was abandoned in 1680 for its present site, which became th...
Spring Hill Cemetery Park occupies 168 acres of a hilltop less than a mile from the heart of downtown Charleston, [Kanawha County]. Its name "Spring Hill" was chosen because of the large number of natural springs that dot its landscape. Officially established as the municipal cemetery in 1869 it is the final resting place for many of the prominent early settlers of Charleston and the Kanawha Va...
Wikipedia =The College of Charleston (informally known as CofC or The College) is a public, sea-grant and space-grant university located in historic downtown Charleston, South Carolina, United States. The college was founded in 1770 and chartered in 1785, making it the oldest college or university in South Carolina, the 13th oldest institution of higher learning[2] in the United States and the ...
Wikipedia =Eastern Illinois University is a state university located in Charleston, Illinois, United States. Established in 1895 as the Eastern Illinois State Normal School, a teacher's college offering a two-year degree, Eastern Illinois University gradually expanded into a comprehensive university with a broad curriculum, including Baccalaureate and Master's degrees in education, business, ar...
Charleston Air Force Base (IATA: CHS, ICAO: KCHS, FAA LID: CHS) is a United States military facility located in the City of North Charleston, South Carolina. The facility is under the jurisdiction of the United States Air Force's 628th Air Base Wing (628 ABW), a subordinate element of the Air Mobility Command (AMC). It is part of Joint Base Charleston, which combined Charleston Air Force Base w...
Add residents of Heber Valley, Utah, including Charleston, Daniels, Heber City, Midway, and Wallsburg, from any time period to this project. You can visit HistoryLink to find out which projects include your ancestors. The Heber Valley/Wasatch County area was originally discovered by Native Americans; the Timpanogos Utes being the most recent. The area was used primarily as a summer hunting grou...
This cemetery was established in 1863. Later, the adjacent Roselawn Cemetery was established as a separately managed addition to Mound Cemetery. The two cemeteries are now under joint management. It is located on 1285 West State Street, Charleston, Coles County, Illinois. Find a Grave Mound Cemetery was laid out in 1863. It was founded by John B. Hill. This cemetery is on a natural hill wh...
Cemetery is a historic cemetery in Charleston, South Carolina. 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.Notable intermentsalso* TripAdvisor photos
This is a quiet, peaceful cemetery, very well maintained. From Fort Madison, Lee County, Iowa, take Rt. 61 South out of town. Turn right on County Road J62 (255th Street) for 10.5 miles. After crossing 160th Avenue, the road turns to gravel for the last mile or so. Embury Cemetery is located on the NE corner of the junction of 150th Ave and 255th St. across from the Embury United Methodist Chur...
Refugees from the Revolution in Saint Domingue (Haiti) that immigrated into New Orleans, the Gulf Coast and elsewhere from 1791 to 1810.Resources* Settlers of St. Domingue, 1750-1800 * Surnames of Some Saint-Domingue Refugee Families * The Road to Louisiana: The Saint-Domingue Refugees, 1792–1809 * From Saint-Domingue to New Orleans: Migration and Influences * The 1809 Immigration of Saint-Domi...
The cemetery is located on 3903 Ashley River Road, Charleston, Charleston County, South Carolina. Official Website Find a Grave
The Battle of Secessionville (or the First Battle of James Island ) was fought on June 16, 1862, during the American Civil War . Confederate forces defeated the Union's only attempt to capture Charleston, South Carolina , by land. It's noted for the court martial of the Union Brig. Gen. Henry Benham for trying to take James Island, which was against the orders given. At about 4:30 a.m. on June...
Located in Charleston, Kanawha County, West Virginia. Mountain View Memorial Park was originally known as the Bradford Addition of Springhill Cemetery. Interments began early in the 1900's. In 1956, Roy B. Sears purchased this portion from the City of Charleston and renamed it Mountain View Memorial Park. He established a perpetual care trust fund, administered by a local bank, to assure the c...
The University of Charleston (UC) is a private non-profit university with its main campus in Charleston, West Virginia. The university also has a location in Beckley, West Virginia, known as UC-Beckley. The school was founded in 1888 as the Barboursville Seminary of the Southern Methodist Church. In 1901, it was renamed Morris Harvey College, in honor of a devoted supporter. In 1935 the schoo...
Bethany Cemetery is located within the city limits of Charleston. St. Matthew's Lutheran Church opened Bethany Cemetery in 1856 after its first cemetery was filled, following several yellow fever outbreaks that devastated the immigrant German population of Charleston. Today, Bethany's beautiful 25 acres are filled with some of the finest Victorian era mortuary art in the low country. Bethany i...
The Battle of Fort Sumter (April 12–13, 1861) was the bombardment of Fort Sumter near Charleston, South Carolina by the South Carolina militia. It ended with the surrender by the United States (Union) Army , beginning the American Civil War . Following the declaration of secession by South Carolina on December 20, 1860, its authorities demanded that the Union Army abandon its facilities in Cha...
From Atlas Obscura IN A CITY WITH MANY churches and graveyards, the cemetery at the Unitarian Church stands out. Pathways here are maintained for visitors, but the plots and the grave markers have been given over to nature. Vines, shrubs, and trees grow among, around, and through the cemetery. In a picture displayed above, you can clearly see a tree taking over a gravestone. That’s how the d...
This project is for those buried in St. Philip's Episcopal Church Cemetery, Charleston, South Carolina. The cemetery is also known as St. Philip's Churchyard and St. Philip's Graveyard . Excerpt from Traveler of Charleston Magazine : Many prominent people are buried in the graveyard, which is divided into two parts. The western yard was initially set aside for the burial of “strangers and tr...
Wikipedia =The Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) opened in Charleston, South Carolina in 1824 as a small private college for the training of physicians. It is one of the oldest continually operating schools of medicine in the United States and the oldest in the Deep South. The school's main building was designed by Charleston architect Albert W. Todd.The school has expanded into a sta...
This project is for those buried in St. Michael's Church Cemetery, Charleston, South Carolina. Adjacent to historic St. Michael's Episcopal Church on the corner of Meeting and Broad Streets, in Charleston, South Carolina is the final resting place of some famous historical figures, including two signers of the Constitution of the United States. The church was established in 1751 as the second ...
June of 1864, the Confederate Army imprisoned five generals and forty-five Union Army officers as human shields against federal artillery in the city of Charleston, South Carolina, in an attempt to stop Union artillery from firing upon the city. In retaliation, United States Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton ordered fifty captured Confederate officers, of similar ranks, to be taken to Morris Is...