The Navy's SSBN (Nuclear Powered Ballistic Missile
Submarine) force enjoyed a unique relationship with
Charleston. Operating from here with other
submarines-the SS's (Diesel powered subs) and SSN's
(Nuclear powered subs), these SSBN's, each . . . — — Map (db m66180) HM
“Rich in red honors, that upon him lie as lightly as the summer dews fall where he won his fame beneath the sky of tropic Vera Cruz” In memory of Brig.-Gen. R. S. Ripley, C.S.A. Born at Worthington, Ohio, 14th March 1823. Graduated at . . . — — Map (db m81835) HM
(West face)
CLD
1861 - 1865
To The Heroic Dead.
James W. O'Hear, Lieut.
J.Allen Miles, Sergt.
Alfred Manigault, Corpl.
Charles E. Prioleac "
Arthur Robinson "
Privates
James Adger Jr.
Josiah Bedon . . . — — Map (db m24238) HM
The Charleston Naval Hospital Historic District was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in
2010. The 32 buildings and structures that comprise the district represent two periods of development
at the Naval Base that closely relate . . . — — Map (db m67140) HM
In 1895 the City of Charleston purchased lands formerly part
of the Retreat and Turnbull Plantations and commissioned the
Olmsted Brothers of Massachusetts to design a recreational
public park. Chicora Park, named for the local Chicora . . . — — Map (db m66781) HM
The Charleston Navy Yard Historic District contains 57
contributing structures and was listed on the National
Register of Historic Places in 2006. Construction of the Navy
Yard began in 1901 as a response to the emergence of the
United States as . . . — — Map (db m66756) HM
(side 1)
The Charleston Station was built in 1956 by the Atlantic Coast Line (ACL). ACL hoped the new station would attract customers, particularly tourists traveling on its Florida-bound trains. In 1967, ACL merged with Seaboard Air . . . — — Map (db m224508) HM
(North face):
Iron Clads
Palmetto State
Chicora
Charleston
Columbia
— • —
Confederate States Ships
Engaged in
The Defense of
Charleston Harbor. (West Face):- Forts -
Sumter.
Moultrie. . . . — — Map (db m24184) HM
André Michaux (1746-1802), botanist to Louis XVI of France, lived here 1786-96. He established a botanical garden 300 yards north in order to export native American trees and plants to France. Michaux was the first to import the camellia, crape . . . — — Map (db m38883) HM
This memorial is dedicated to the citizens of the local community and to the thousands of men and women, military and civilian, who from 1901-1996 served at the Charleston Naval Base and in the Charleston based ships, submarines and other military . . . — — Map (db m66274) HM WM
This Destroyer represents the long line of surface
warships - Destroyers and Cruisers - which operated
from the Charleston Navy Base from prior to WW I
and continuing to 1995. More than fifty Destroyers,
Destroyer Escorts, Sub Chasers, Cutters . . . — — Map (db m66614) HM WM
Here rests the crew of the
Confederate Submarine Hunley
Died on October 15, 1863 when
making a practice dive in the harbor
Horace L. Hunley
Robert Brockbank
Joseph Patterson
Thomas W. Park
Charles . . . — — Map (db m23302) HM
(side 1)
Embankments and ditches dating from the early 18th century are still visible here and show the elaborate layout of rice fields that were part of Windsor Hill and Woodlands plantations. Before the American Revolution, . . . — — Map (db m224505) HM
To The Memory of the Dead
of the
Irish Volunteers
In the War of 1812
In the Florida War 1835
——
Co. C. Charleston Battalion
Dept. So. Ca. Ga. & Fla 1862-1863
Co. K. 1st Regt. So. Ca. Vols.
Army Northern . . . — — Map (db m41023) WM
Micah Jenkins, Brig. Gen. C.S.A. Born Dec. 1835 Edisto Island, S.C. -------------- A graduate of the Citadel Academy with first honors. Killed at the head of his brigade in the Battle of the Wilderness, May 6th, 1864. “Integer . . . — — Map (db m67998) HM
(Front text) Since 1937 this has been the campus of the Jenkins Orphanage, established in Charleston in 1891 by Rev. Daniel Joseph Jenkins (1862-1937). Jenkins, a Baptist minister, founded this orphanage for African American children with . . . — — Map (db m39336) HM
Liberty Hill, established in 1871, is the oldest community in what is now North Charleston. In 1864 Paul and Harriet Trescot, "free persons of color" living in Charleston, owned 112 acres here. They sold land to Ishmael Grant, Aaron Middleton, and . . . — — Map (db m39035) HM
Veterans who made the Supreme Sacrifice Raymond Blandin • Ernest Carter • John Holmes • Harold Mack, Jr. • Franklin Rambert • Issac Sparkman • Billy Williams • Nathan White, Jr. — — Map (db m224512) HM WM
Constructed in 1910 and designed architect Jules Henri de Sibour, this building served as barracks for members of the United States Marine Corps (USMC) stationed at the Charleston Navy Yard, later Naval Base Charleston. The barracks was the . . . — — Map (db m225753) HM
(side 1)
Constructed 1940-42, this multi-wing complex was the core of a hospital district established to serve the Charleston Navy Yard (1901). Navy personnel, shipyard workers, and their families first received on-site medical care in . . . — — Map (db m224515) HM
(side 1)
In 2007, nearly 70 acres of the former Charleston Navy Yard (1901) were listed in the National Register of Historic Places as the Navy Yard Officers’ Quarters Historic District. This area of what was later named Naval Base . . . — — Map (db m224516) HM
Appropriated by Magnolia Cemetery at the request of the Confederate Government for burial of those men who fought and died defending the cause. Among the fallen are 82 Confederate Soldiers that died on the battlefield at Gettysburg. In 1871, the . . . — — Map (db m24026) HM
(North face)
In Memory
of the sons of Charleston
who
fell around her walls;
who
sleep on many battlefields
in
Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania,
Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia,
Louisiana, Mississippi, and
North . . . — — Map (db m23946) HM
(East face)
General Officers P.A.C.S.
From South Carolina.
Killed or Died in Service,
1861-1865. ——
Brig. GenLS
Barnard E. Bee.
July 21, 1861.
Adley H. Gladden.
April 12, 1862.
J.B. . . . — — Map (db m24094) HM
Side A The Elms, an inland rice plantation on the headwaters of Goose Creek, was owned by the Izard family for more than 150 years. In 1704 Ralph Izard (d. 1711), member of the Commons House of Assembly, bought a 250-acre tract here, . . . — — Map (db m39036) HM
Ralph Izard inherited The Elms after his father's death in 1749. During the Revolution he provided financial support to the Patriot cause. He also served as a foreign diplomat, advisor to George Washington, and US senator. The Elms, which remained . . . — — Map (db m39037) HM
This Landing Craft, a LSM (Landing Ship Medium)
represents more than 150 Landing Craft-LLC's LSM's
LSMR's, LST's - built by the Charleston Naval Shipyard
between 1942 and 1945. At the peak of the Landing Craft
construction period, from . . . — — Map (db m66419) HM WM
To meet the needs of an expanding navy, in 1899 the United States Naval Committee solicited proposals to build a new ship construction and repair facilities. At the urging of South Carolina Senator Benjamin "Pitchfork" Tillman and Charleston Mayor . . . — — Map (db m66987) HM
Union Heights (side 1)This Community, subdivided into lots in 1919, was named for the nearby union station of three railroads. It had been part of Belmont Plantation from the colonial period to the mid-19th century and became an . . . — — Map (db m133628) HM
The Charleston Naval Base has a long and distinguished history in support of the Mine Forces of the
United States Navy. Over the years, Charleston served as the home for the Commander of the Mine
Forces of the US Atlantic Fleet and in later . . . — — Map (db m68376) HM
Park Circle is the focus of the master plan for North Charleston, designed by W.B. Marquis in 1912. One of the first modern planned communities in S.C., this 1500-acre development was completed shortly before World War II and grew with the wartime . . . — — Map (db m39000) HM
Windsor Hill Plantation, steeped in the history
and traditions of the South of another
day, was for a time the home of one of the best
known and highly respected heroes of the
American Revolution.
General William Moultrie . . . — — Map (db m39360) HM
(Front text) This inland rice plantation was established in 1701 by a grant of 500 acres to Joseph Child. The original grant was between the headwaters of Goose Creek and the Ashley River, and Child soon acquired an additional 300 acres. His . . . — — Map (db m38951) HM
