Points of Interest
 
01. Bathing House
05. Fort Mechanic, Darrell Battery
07. Gibbes Wharf and City Market
08. Gibbes Battery 1780
09. Bretigny's Battery 1780
12. Vanderhorst's Creek
14. Court House (1735) City Market 1787
15. First St. Philip's Church (1690-1723) Now St. Michael's (1762)
16. Armory (1750), Watch House (1767), Guard House (1838-1886)
17. Watch House (1719-1767) Exchange (1769) Council Chambers (1735)
18. Pitt's Statue on Corner, Meeting and Broad
19. Beef Market (1735) Town Market Place 1680
20. Archdale Square, 1683
21. Quaker Meeting House
22 B. Vauxhall Gardens
23. Broad Street Theater (1793) Medical College (1833)
26. Sugar House Battery 1780
29. St. Mary's Hotel (1801), Planter's Hotel (1803), Mills House (1826), St. Johns (1901)
29A. Bowling Green
30. Dock Street Theater, 1736
31. Fish Market 1770-1807
32. Coming's Point Battery
38. "New" Powder Magazine 1737
39. DeVieux Magazine Battery
45. New Theatre 1837
48. Battery Northwest
50. First Golf Played U.S.A. 1788
56. West Point Rice Mill 1861
69. Old Powder Magazine 1712
77. New Market Race Track 1760-1792
78. Sunken Gardens Exposition 1902
79. Washington Race Track 1792-1900
80. Powder Magazines 1822-1915
81. Belvidere Golf Links, 1902-1925
82. Gibbes Landing 1775-1885
83. Race Track, Gentlemen's Driving Association 1880-1902
86. Governors Bridge 1767
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Fires
 
1740 (November 18) Fire
1778 (January 15) Fire
1796 (June 13) Fire
1838 (April 27-28) Fire
The 1830s: A Decade of Fire

Natural Disasters
 
1700 (September 3) Cyclone
1752 (September 14-15) Cyclone
1804 (September 7-8) Cyclone
1813 (August 27) Cyclone
1874 (September 28) Cyclone
1893 (August 27) Cyclone
1911 (August 27-29) Hurricane

Wars and Battles
 
Battle of Sullivan's Island, June 28, 1776

Government Officials
 
Charleston's Intendants and Mayors
South Carolina's Colonial Governors

 

 

JOHN DRAYTON

Elected intendant September 12, 1803, succeeding David Deas. Succeeded by Thomas Winstanley, September 1804. 
Born 1766, died November 27, 1822, buried at St. Paul's Episcopal Church [Cathedral of St. Luke and St. Paul].
Son of William Henry Drayton and Dorothy Golightly, married Hester Rose Tidyman 1794.
Read law in Charles Cotesworth Pinckney's office, admitted to bar in 1788. Attorney, botanist and author.
Represented St. Philip's and St. Michael's parishes in State House during three non-consecutive General Assemblies, 1792-1799. 1798 resigned from State House when elected Lieutenant Governor; elected 1800 to Fourteenth General Assembly, but did not serve.
January 1800, became interim governor upon death of Edward Rutledge, elected governor December 1800 for a two-year term.
Represented St. Philip's and St. Michael's parishes in General Assembly, 1802-1804; and in state Senate during three General Assemblies, 1804-1809. Resigned when elected governor December 1808 for a two-year term.
Held office of United States District Court Judge from 1812 until his death.

Bailey, N. Louise, Mary L. Morgan, and Carolyn R. Taylor. Biographical Directory of the South Carolina Senate, 1776-1985. Vol. 1. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1986.
Charleston City Gazette, September 12, September 13, October 7, 1803.
Charleston Courier, September 5, 1804.
Drayton, John. Memoirs of the American Revolution, from Its Commencement to the Year 1776, inclusive; As Relating to the State of South Carolina. 2 vols. Charleston, 1821.
Drayton, John. A View of South Carolina, as Respects Her Natural and Civil Concerns. Charleston, 1802.
Krawczynski, Keith. "Drayton, John." Walter Edgar, ed. The South Carolina Encyclopedia. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2006.


Photos

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John Drayton, 1809

Charleston City Gazette, September 12, 1803