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Charleston Time Machine
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Charleston Time Machine is a podcast and illustrated blog created by Dr. Nic Butler, historian at theCharleston County Public Library. Drawing forgotten stories from archival sources, Dr. Butler explores the less familiar corners of local history with a broad range of stories that highlight connections between past and present in the Lowcountry of South Carolina.
Other Facts about Charleston Time Machine:
•Launched in January 2017.
• 250episodes (as of February 2023).
•More than 110 hours of audio content (as of February 2023).
•The text version of the podcast includes more than a million words and hundreds of illustrations.
Apr 14, 2024 3:00 PM – 3:30 PM
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Charleston Time Machine-The Carolina Coffee House of London - From the 1670s to the 1830s, the Carolina Coffee House in London’s Birchin Lane served as the epicenter for conversations about the colony of South Carolina, its business opportunities, and its residents. To better understand the important role of this long-forgotten coffee spot, we’ll take a tour through its caffeinated history and conclude with a virtual stroll through Birchin Lane.
Apr 7, 2024 3:00 PM – 3:30 PM
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Charleston Time Machine - Phebe Fletcher: Magdalene in Revolutionary Charleston: Phebe Fletcher was an intriguing woman of late eighteenth-century Charleston whose unconventional lifestyle earned both derision and respect from her neighbors. Although she acquired a colorful reputation as a woman of dubious morals, Charlestonians long remembered the benevolent care she rendered to ailing soldiers during the American Revolution
Mar 31, 2024 4:00 PM – 4:30 PM
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Charleston Time Machine: The Auction Sales of Enslaved Residents In Colonial-Era Charleston- Charleston was once the most active marketplace for enslaved people in North America.While incoming Africans were usually sold from the decks of the vessels that brought them here,enslaved people already living and working in the Lowcountry during the colonial era (1670–1775) were often sold at open-air auctionsata long-forgotten site in urban Charleston Once Known as “the usual place.”
Mar 24, 2024 3:00 PM – 3:30 PM
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Charleston Time Machine: The Sales of Incoming Africans on the Wharves of Colonial Charleston- The entry of more than 150,000 African captives into the port of Charleston before the year 1808 forms one of the most important themes in the history of this community, but there are many local details about this international traffic in human cargo that remain obscure. To acknowledge the suffering of those people and to honor their legacy, many people wish to retrace their first footsteps onto this American shore. But where did they stand when they were sold into a life of slavery here in Charleston?
Mar 17, 2024 3:00 PM – 3:30 PM
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Charleston Time Machine - The Irish Church’in Mazyck’s Pasture
Irish immigrants who adhered to the Catholic Church were not free to exercise their faith in South Carolina until several years after the American Revolution. In the years preceding the War of Independence, however, a handful of documents point to the existence of an “Irish Church” in Mr. Mazyck’s Pasture, just outside the boundaries of urban Charleston
Mar 10, 2024 3:00 PM – 3:30 PM
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Charleston Time Machine - The Shaw Community Center: A Living Memorial to Civil Rights ProgressThe Shaw Community Center at 22 Mary Street in downtown arose shortly after the CivilWar as a memorial to Robert Gould Shaw and members of the 54th Massachusetts Regiment Who died in battle at Morris Island. Their comrades pooled money to establish a school forAfrican-American children that flourished from 1867 to 1937, when it evolved into the present multipurpose youth hub. Long managed by the City of Charleston, the Shaw Center perpetuates a noble commitment to the advancement of civil rights.
Mar 3, 2024 3:00 PM – 3:30 PM
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Charleston Time Machine - The Evolution of Charleston’s NameHow, when, and why did “Charles Town '' become “Charleston ''in the eighteenth century? The answers lie in the city’s charter of incorporation, ratified in 1783, the surviving manuscript of which contains a curious spelling anomaly that provides new insight into evolution of the familiar name
Feb 25, 2024 3:00 PM – 3:30 PM
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Charleston Time Machine - Segregation and Desegregation at the Charleston County Public Library, 1930–1965 The Charleston County Public Library opened its doors in 1931, but until the early 1960s maintained separate facilities and unequal collections for two classes of customers identified as either Black or white. This divisive practice began to erode in November 1960, when the opening of a racially-integrated library on King Street shocked some members of the community and signaled the twilight of a prejudicial tradition.
Feb 18, 2024 3:00 PM – 3:30 PM
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Charleston Time Machine -The Historic Landscape of the Wando Mount Pleasant LibraryThe Wando Mount Pleasant Library stands within a scenic neighborhood endowed with rich but invisible history. Formerly occupied by Native Americans, this land was controlled by a succession of planters who grew rich from the labors of enslaved people. From fallow forest land in the twentieth century to the present suburban development, the land under the library has quite a story to tell.
Feb 4, 2024 3:00 PM – 3:30 PM
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Charleston Time Machine - The Beef Market under Charleston's City Hall: Nearly a century before Charleston’s municipal headquarters moved to the northeast corner of Meeting and Broad Streets,residents gathered daily at this site to procure meat other foodstuffs.The city abandoned this so-called“Beef Market”in 1789, following the construction of a new facility in Market Street, and the old market was briefly used for artillery storage.Events associated with the Haitian Revolution triggered its reactivation in 1795, until fire consumed the old Beef Marketing 1796 and cleared the site for the present bank building that became City Hall.
Jan 28, 2024 3:00 PM – 3:30 PM
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Charleston Time Machine -The Decline of Charleston’s Streetcars Electric street cars or trolleys dominated the streets of Charleston at the turn of the twentieth century, but their long reign came to an ignominious end in 1938. Although the rise of the automobile certainly contributed to their demise, the resurgence of the humble omnibus, in a new, mechanized form, played a significant role in transforming the history of mass transit in the Lowcountry.
Jan 21, 2024 3:00 PM – 3:30 PM
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Charleston Time Machine - The Rise of Streetcars and Trolleys in Charleston Horse-drawn streetcar and electric trolleys might today seem like quaint vestiges of the obsolete past, but the debut ofCharleston’s first street railway in 1866 marked the beginning of a golden age of local mass transit. Since traffic and congestion are currently major issues in the Lowcountry, let’s take a spin through history on a streetcar named“Progress.”
Jan 14, 2024 3:00 PM – 3:30 PM
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Charleston Time Machine- Street Cars and Trolleys on Sullivan’s Island, 1875–1927 The transformation of Sullivan’s Island from remote beach front to bustling destination could not have happened without the aid of ferries, mule-powered street cars, and electric trolleys that carried weary people from the mainland to the invigorating island surf over the past two centuries. Let’s roll back the wheels of time and explore the many moving parts of this important transportation story
Dec 31, 2023 3:00 PM – 3:30 PM
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Charleston Time Machine - Emancipation Day: A New Year’s TraditionSince 1866, local citizens have celebrated the first of January Emancipation Day—a joyous holiday featuring parades,pageantry, singing, dancing,orations,and religious thanksgiving.The day marks the demise of slavery and the liberation of those who once formed the majority of South Carolina’s population. Nowone of Charleston’s oldest public events,Emancipation Day is a noble occasion worthy of generalacknowledgementand applause,regardless of one’s creed or color.
Dec 24, 2023 3:00 PM – 3:30 PM
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Charleston Time Machine - First Football-The First Football Match in Charleston, Christmas Eve 1892 The first exhibition game of American-style football in the Lowcountry of South Carolina Kicked-off in December1892, when teams from Furman University and South Carolina College Scrimmage atCharleston’s Base Ball Park on Christmas Eve.Only a few locals had by that time seen or played the novel game developed up North, but the gridiron battle for the state championship infused the roaring crowd with football fever
Dec 17, 2023 3:00 PM – 3:30 PM
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Charleston Time Machine -Steamboating from Edisto to Charleston ca. 1900 - Have you ever wondered what it was like to ride a steamboat from Edisto Island to Charleston around the turn of the twentieth century, before the arrival of the automobile? Today We'll board the steamer Pilot and make that journey with a young man who later wrote a charming description of the sights, smells, and sounds of that by-gone experience once treasured by generations of islanders
Dec 10, 2023 3:00 PM – 3:30 PM
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Charleston Time Machine - Watson's Garden: The Horticultural Roots of Courier Square A few years before the American Revolution, a Scottish gardener named John Watson developed South Carolina’s first commercial nursery in suburban Charleston, cultivating both native and exotic plants for sale. The long-forgotten site, scarred by the American Revolution,will soon be exposed as the Post and Courier Transforms its headquarters on upper King Street Into a mixed-use development called Courier Square
Dec 3, 2023 3:00 PM – 3:30 PM
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Charleston Time Machine - The Shady History Of Protecting Lowcountry Trees: Shade Trees form an important part of the Lowcountry’s natural landscape and the focus of umbrageous thoughts on Arbor Day. While some in our community would like to uproot grand oaks standing along our most scenic highways, others defend the venerable trees from the ravages of modernity. The moss-draped canopy they provide isn’t just a picturesque feature of our rural roads, it’s the manifestation of an ancient law rooted in the protection of travelers from highway robbers in Medieval England.