forEach(document.getElementsByTagName('table'), function(table) { The lovers remain in one another's perpetual care on Green Hill, where Hope witnessed the couple's spirits slowly waltzing under the oak canopy. return sortfn; } Charlestons alleys occupy spaces that blur the line between public and private areas and offer remarkable insight into the citys history. Alms House Records, 1801 to 1917 (Microfilm only. Engineering Scrolls Collection, 1900 to 1950. for (var i=0; iCharleston Orphan House Index, 1796-1929 if (object) { In 2002, the City transferred some of its older collections to the Charleston County Public Library (CCPL) in order to make the documents more widely available. // check for a date: dd/mm/yyyy or dd/mm/yy if (element.removeEventListener) { A couple of the earliest entries pre-date photography: The Village of Childsbury was abandoned in the 1760s, and the old city walls were dismantled around 1785. window.onload = sorttable.init; this.appendChild(sortfwdind); Despite protests from preservation groups and others, the Charleston Orphan House was torn down to make way for a Sears Department Store, which in turn was torn down for the College of Charlestons Lightsey Continuing Education Center. Revised November 2013, N. Butler. this.$$handleEvent = handlers[i]; Sword Gates House Sword Gates House was built back in 1810 as a private residence. Also, in the collection are several sets of Zettelkasten (card files). } else { } While largely a collection of newspaper clippings, the General Files also contain many original City documents. Records of the Commissioners of the Charleston Orphan House are held at the Charleston County Public Library, in Charleston. if (/WebKit/i.test(navigator.userAgent)) { // sniff row_array = []; Records that were less than seventy-five years old at the time remain with the Citys Records Management Division. reverse: function(tbody) { 'sorttable_sorted_reverse'); sort_numeric: function(a,b) { This collection consists of the records of two separate government bodies that assumed responsibility for different aspects of Charlestons streets. [1] The records are available in the South Carolina Room of the Library. } [1], By 1861, the Orphan House was staffed by 39 employees who cared for 360 children. for (var i=newrows.length-1; i>=0; i--) { When you see photos taken of Charleston in 1865, you see a devastated, ruined city. During that time, he kept extensive scrapbooks of newspaper clippings pertaining to politics, social issues, postal matters, and Charleston history. Copyright 2022 Charleston County Public Library Powered By EBSCO Stacks 3.3.0 [350.2] | Staff Login, Subscribe to CCPL newsletters Since it should have, create one and New book remembers the urban landscape of 'Lost Charleston', By Adam Parker row_array[row_array.length] = [sorttable.getInnerText(rows[j].cells[col]), rows[j]]; (?) function handleEvent(event) { if (dt1==dt2) return 0; Former Orphan House residents and their direct descendants can access these records by contacting the City of Charleston directly. // Sorttable v1 put rows with a class of "sortbottom" at the bottom (as Among those who were opposed were Peter Manigault, Christopher Gadsden, Charles Pinckney, Henry Laurens and Rawlins Lowndes, writing "Officers and Soldiers cannot, legally or constitutionally, be quarter'd in private Houses, without the special Consent of the Owners or Possessors of such Houses.". z-index: 1; The Civil War did additional damage to the city and its surroundings. .footer. In early 1806, it became the sole wharf permitted by the city to receive enslaved Africans. /* for other browsers */ New book remembers the urban landscape of 'Lost Charleston' sorttable.DATE_RE = /^(\d\d?)[\/\.-](\d\d? The fire burned east of Brea Boulevard and spread north, away from nearby homes, OCFA Capt. During this period the city limits of Charleston were confined to the peninsular area, as far north as Mount Pleasant Street, so these records do not include any births that occurred west of the Ashley River, east of the Cooper River, or north of Mount Pleasant Street. font-weight: 600; and Jones, Charlotte, Jones, John A. and Sarah Elizabeth Talley, Miller, William T. and Carolina von Wittke, Moran, Francis George and Florence V. Grooms, Von Dohlen, Otto W., Sr. and Lorrie Meyer, Connellee, Roger S. and Aurelia McDonald Heyward, Dumas, Edward B. and Theodora S. Ostendorff, White, Charles Hampton and Eugenia William, De Cesare, Vincenzo and Mary Josephine Noble, Robinson, William Timothy and Mary C. Byrns, Steele, Edward Gilliam and Isabelle E. Macindoe, Bunch, Elisha Calvit and Catherine Victoria Granger, Knight, Peter Joseph and Amanda F. Lindenberg, Legare, Daniel James and Lillie Rebecca Witzel, Mitchell, Alexander J. and Mary F. Sellers, Bouronich, Vincent S. and Annie L. C. Groverman, Bunch, Elisha Calvit and Catherine Victoria Grainger, Marjenhoff, William A. G. and Lillian G. Strobel, Munn, James Elliott and Sarah F. Campbell, Murray, Jasper Watts and Carrie Elizabeth, Burgess, George W. and Mary Elizabeth Britt, Peters, Benjamin Franklin and Clara Judson Tharin, Blackwelder, Luther and Hettie Colen Poplin, Bunch, Elisha Calvit and Catherine V. Grainger, Groves, George Jackson and Lizzie Driggers, Hanold, Emile A. and Dora Wilhelmina Dennis, Bowick, Robert Travis and Annie Kate Burgess, Johnston, William O. and Florence E. Driggers, Whitson, William W. and Sadie Adella Koester, Anderson, Vincent Gurin and Rosa May Johnson, Baker, Harry and Bessie Singletary Wiersching, Hattaway, William Franklin and Emma Eliza Clark, Molony, Thomas C. and Josephine F. Knickmeyer, Riggs, Obadiah Rhame and Sarah Catherine Knight, Godfrey, Stephen and Elizabeth Ruth Bunch, Sims, Warren M. and Elizabeth Wilson Ramsey, Wyndham, Freddie E. and Daisy Bell Morris, Braddock, Haygood Washington and Mary McClurg, Morrill, Allan Sinclair and Josephine Roberts, Brown, Henry Earl and Queenie Ester Jones, Seaward, Richard Floyd and Maude Jeffcoat, Steinmeyer, Frederick H. and Bertha Viola, Burbage, Thomas Nathan and Essie Mary Droze, Morris, Eugene and Helen B. Villeponteaux, Welch, Frank Huger and Clara Estelle Kolb, Wiersching, Robert and Bessie L. Singleterry, Johstono, James Vance and Mary Alma Shirah, Varalla, Frank A., Jr. and Arline Haltwanger. if (this.className.search(/\bsorttable_sorted_reverse\b/) != -1) { text-transform: uppercase; width: 40%; The Charleston Orphan House: Children's Lives in the First Public Orphanage in America by John E. Murray 5.0 (5) Hardcover (New Edition) $37.00 Hardcover $37.00 NOOK Book $36.99 View All Available Formats & Editions Ship This Item Qualifies for Free Shipping Buy Online, Pick up in Store Check Availability at Nearby Stores Boys were housed in the west wing and girls in the east. In order to insure that business signs within the city limits conformed to new regulations passed in 1985, the City Council ordered an inventory of all eligible signs. // remove sorttable_sorted classes // table doesn't have a tHead. // assign each event handler a unique ID One of the most important and persistent of these duties was the collection of delinquent taxes via executions issued by the City Treasurer. The Charleston Orphan House Index is, by default,arranged in alphabetical order by the last name of the orphan. [5], In 1956, the Orphan House building at St. Phillip and Coming streets was torn down to construct a Sears. font-size: 14px; event.stopPropagation = fixEvent.stopPropagation; Term expires March 31, 1923. } else { Charleston Orphan House, 160 Calhoun Street, Charleston - City of Charleston (1790) (orphans, indigent children) (M/F) South Carolina Archives Online. City of Charleston Yearbooks, 1880 to 1951. This includes family members who are regaining custody of an orphan. rows = this.sorttable_tbody.rows; The Charleston Orphan House was charged with accepting all such poor orphan children, and children of poor distressed or disabled parents, as shall be deemed proper objects of admission by the CommissionersThe Commissioners of the Charleston Orphan House were . makeSortable: function(table) { if (td) { case 4: The Ophan House remained at this site for nearly 150 years. // add W3C standard event methods Charleston Orphan House Publications - South Carolina Edmund P. Grice, Charleston Alderman, Postmaster, and Social Work Administrator, spent nearly three decades in public life. } arguments.callee.done = true; delete sortbottomrows; if (isNaN(bb)) bb = 0; alpha omicron pi house fire by: DG alumnae May 6, 2019 5:53:12 PM. aa = parseFloat(a[0].replace(/[^0-9.-]/g,'')); Photographs by Dr. E.P. This collection includes administrative records of the Board of Trustees. break; // this is *not* a generic getInnerText function; it's special to sorttable. Applications, 17961929 No one alive today would remember the Ivory City, torn down for scrap in 1902, or the Henry Laurens House, demolished in 1914. Police and Fire Departments - All About Hacienda Heights Mothers' maiden names are given when known. by Walter J. Fraser, Jr. (1991). and keep looking Thats not the case. Board, Committee, and Commission Minutes, 1790 to 2015, Special Committee, Subcommittee, and Public Hearing Minutes, 1886 to 2015, Clerk of Council Address and Location Files, 1933-Present, Sewerage Department Records, 1892 to 1916, Zoning Board of Adjustment Files, A-F, ca. tfo = document.createElement('tfoot'); Charleston!) }, by Walt Fraser, p. 141), April 26-- In response to the news that British troops were being dispatched to the colonies, the Secret Committee of Five, created by the Provisional. }, Two years later in September 1951, the Charleston Orphan House officially closed[1] and the commissioners of the Orphan House bought roughly 37 acres of a new site called Oak Grove Plantation in North Charleston. In those cases where the name of the orphan is unknown, such as in indenture applications for an unnamed orphan, the orphan's name is listed as Anonymous. This collection contains materials relating to well-known childrens author John Bennett. Charleston!, p. 109), Oct. 26-- Leaders of a rebel mob spread rumors that Charles Town's two local stamp agents, George Saxby and Caleb Lloyd, were hiding out at Fort Johnson on James Island. if (object instanceof Function) { The materials in this collection document both incarnations of the Charleston Fire Department, the bulk of which are house journals of individual fire companies, from 1911 to 1979. Other materials include subject files, photographs, and writings. if (!element.events) element.events = {}; NOTE: Click on the columnheaders to sort by orphan's name, parent/guardian, others named in the file, and to whom the child was indentured. var stIsIE = /*@cc_on! sort_mmdd: function(a,b) { The Records Center houses a variety of records generated by departments and divisions of the City of Charleston, which may be of use for both historical and contemporary research. } sortfn = sorttable.sort_alpha; The Fire and Smoke Map shows information on particle pollution, fires and smoke plumes: Particle pollution data: Particle pollution, also called fine particulate matter or PM 2.5, is the main type of pollution in smoke. Provided, The Henry Laurens House at 320 East Bay St. the = document.createElement('thead'); [3], The Orphan House also occupied Revolutionary-War-Era barracks. resolve = String; }; Charleston Orphan House, the first public orphanage in the United States, was an orphanage in Charleston, South Carolina from 1790 to 1951. } by Walt Fraser, p. 143), June 16-- A slave named Jemmy said in a depostion to Revolutionary authorities that he had been approached by his brother-in-law Thomas Jeremiah to "take a few guns" to a runaway slave named Dewar. font-weight: 600; } G. Croft Williams, Secretary. // for backwards compatibility, move them to tfoot (creating it if needed).