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Tax Book Free Persons of Color 1863
LibGuide on this item available.This ledger includes tax return information paid by free people of color for the year 1863, the middle of the Civil War. The state of South Carolina came under martial law in 1862, and would remain so until the end of…
Tags: Charleston City Records, Civil War, Donnelly, tax
Tax Book Free Persons of Color 1862
LibGuide on this item available.This ledger includes tax return information paid by free people of color for the year 1862, toward the beginning of the Civil War. The state of South Carolina fell under martial law in May of this year, and would…
Tags: Charleston City Records, Civil War, Donnelly, tax
Report of the City Planning and Zoning Commission, 1931
The Charleston Library Society’s copy of the City of Charleston’s 1931 Report of the City Planning and Zoning Commission Upon a Program for the Development of a City Plan with Specific Studies of Certain Features Thereof was prepared for the city by…
Poll Tax Lower Ward, 1859
LibGuide on this item available.This volume covers taxes paid in 1859 in the "lower wards," which consisted of the peninsula south of Calhoun Street. This period starts just over two years after the deadly 1885 hurricane, an a little over one year…
Tags: Antebellum, Charleston City Records, Donnelly, tax
Police Book 1894
LibGuide on this item available. This volume covers the dates Monday, January 1, 1894, through Saturday, July 7, 1894. On the cusp of the twentieth century, Charleston was still experiencing difficult post-Civil War social and economic changes. These…
Police Book 1888-1889
LibGuide on this item available.This volume covers the dates Saturday, September 15, 1888, through Monday, April 8, 1889. Ten years after the end of Reconstruction, Charleston was still experiencing difficult post-Civil War social and economic…
Police Book 1887-1888
LibGuide on this item available.This volume covers the dates Thursday, November 24, 1887, through Sunday, October 21, 1888. This period starts just over two years after the deadly 1885 hurricane, an a little over one year after the 1886 earthquake.…
Police Book 1883-1884
LibGuide on this item available.This volume covers the dates Tuesday, July 31, 1883 through Friday, October 31, 1884. During this period Reconstruction was no longer in effect, and Charleston was still experiencing difficult post-Civil War social and…
Police Book 1869-1870
LibGuide on this item available.This volume covers the dates Tuesday, December 7, 1869 through Thursday, July 15, 1870. During this timespan the South was in the middle of Reconstruction following the end of the Civil War, and the city was policed…
Police Book 1868-1869
LibGuide on this item available.This volume covers the dates Tuesday, October 13, 1868 through Thursday, July 15, 1869. During this timespan the South was in the middle of Reconstruction following the end of the Civil War, and the city was policed…