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March 2024

How socialite Daisy Simonds attracted attention with the construction of Villa Margherita and lured a president to one of her elaborate parties

After she moved, the mansion become a guesthouse that hosted the elite and she remained the talk of the town

November 2023

City of the Silent: Scenic Magnolia Cemetery followed the park-like rural cemetery movement of the 19th century

It was dedicated in November 1850

May 2023

After newspaper editor Francis Warrington Dawson was killed after defending his governess, the trial captured the attention of the nation

December 2021

The Great Fire of 1861 devastated the city, driving people away before Union troops shelled the streets during the Civil War

Learn why the fire spread so quickly

March 2021

The beginings of the City Market and how its story reflects the history of the city

February 2021

The African American troops who secured the city of Charleston after the Civil War

Some formerly had been enslaved

January 2021

How KKBE started American Reform Judaism

The cornerstone was laid in January 1840