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Tag: South Carolina

  • Charleston remembers Confederates and rebellious slaves

    Monument to leader of a slave rebellion is located in a park named after a secessionist and Lost Cause progenitor Amtrak is building a new, multi-modal passenger station in North Charleston, S.C. We thought it odd that the current train station still has telephone booths with working, coin-operated telephones— two in each of the identical…

  • Reliving the past in Charleston, S.C.

    [UPDATED with new photos] Researchers from the Blaska Policy Werkes are on the ground here in Charleston, South Carolina, birthplace of the Confederacy (1860-1865). This is an old city —  ancient by American standards — founded at the behest of the newly restored King Charles II in 1670, and perhaps the best preserved large city (metro…