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In 1952, Fielding took charge of the day-to-day operations of the family funeral home business, becoming President and CEO of Fielding Home for Funeral Services. Founded in 1912 by Fielding’s father, Fielding Home for Funeral Services was the largest African American-owned and operated funeral home in the state of South Carolina. [2] Fielding ...
September 12, 1994 (Roughly along the Ashley River from just east of South Carolina Highway 165 to the Seaboard Coast Line railroad bridge: West Ashley: Extends into other parts of Charleston and into Dorchester counties; boundary increase (listed October 22, 2010): Northwest of Charleston between the northeast bank of the Ashley River and the Ashley-Stono Canal and east of Delmar Highway ...
Others have South Carolina historical markers (HM). The citation on historical markers is given in the reference. The location listed is the nearest community to the site. More precise locations are given in the reference. These listings illustrate some of the history and contributions of African Americans in South Carolina.
The Charleston Cemeteries Historic District encompasses a cluster of 23 cemeteries north of downtown Charleston, South Carolina.Laid out on either side of Huguenin Street in the northern part of peninsular Charleston, they were laid out between 1849 and 1956, and represented a concentrated diversity in funerary art and cemetery landscape design practices.
Esau Jenkins (July 3, 1910 – October 30, 1972) was an American human Rights leader, businessman, local preacher, and community organizer. He was the founder and leader of many organizations and institutions which helped improved the political, educational, housing, health and economic conditions of Sea Island residents.
George LaGrange Cook photographed the Confederate Home in about 1890. The Confederate Home, 60 Broad St., Charleston, South Carolina A plat showing the Confederate House in 1825 before the street was renumbered. The Confederate Home is a retirement home located in an early 19th-century building at 60 Broad Street in Charleston, South Carolina ...
They brought the first Jersey cattle into South Carolina. [11] [12] In 1880, Francis J. Pelzer, who built Pelzer Manufacturing Company, purchased the property. It was later owned by a number of South Carolinians. The last private owner was Frederick W. Symmes of Greenville. He owned it from 1940 to 1957. [2] It was then purchased by Mead Paper ...
The William Washington House is a pre-Revolutionary house at 8 South Battery, Charleston, South Carolina. [1] It is the only pre-Revolutionary house on Charleston's Battery . [ 2 ] Thomas Savage bought the lot at the southwest corner of Church St. and South Battery in 1768 and soon built his house there.