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

 

 

GEORGE IRVIN CUNNINGHAM

Elected intendant October 1, 1873, succeeding John A. Wagener; re-elected October 6, 1875. Succeeded by William W. Sale, December 1877.
Born 1835, died November 29, 1902, buried at Magnolia Cemetery.
Son of Abner Cunningham and Celia Stephens, married Mary Alice (surname unknown), married second Helen Rachel McInnes.
Butcher and stockyard operator. President, Charleston Waterworks Company.
Chairman of Charleston County Board of Commissioners, 1872-1879. United States Marshal for South Carolina, 1889-1894 and 1902-death. Postmaster of Charleston, 1897-1902.
City alderman appointed by General E. R. S. Canby, commander of the 2nd Military District, 1868-1871.

"Capt. Geo. I. Cunningham Dead. Career of Abolitionist Who Made His Home and Fortune in Charleston." The (Columbia) State, November 30, 1902.
Garlington, J. C. Men of the Time. Sketches of Living Notables. A Biographical Encyclopedia of Contemporaneous South Carolina Leaders. Spartanburg: Garlington Publishing Co., 1901 (http://books.google.com)
"Mr. George I. Cunningham. Death of the Leading Republican of South Carolina." News and Courier, November 30, 1902.
News and Courier, October 2, 1873; October 7, 1875; December 12, 1877.


Photos

Preservation Society of Charleston photo

12 Glebe Street. In 1872, George Cunningham paid William Harrall $7,000 for a dwelling house and parcel of land, shown as Lot 8 on an 1840 plat of "former vestry lands." This late 1840s residence was Cunningham's home during his tenure as mayor.

Ichnography of Charleston, South Carolina. Surveyed by Edmund Petrie for the Phoenix Fire Company of London, 1788

Approximate location of 12 Glebe Street in 1788.

R. P. Bridgens & Robt. Allen, "An Original Map of the City of Charleston," 1852

12 Glebe Street was one of several residences built on land sold by the vestry of St. Philip's Parish.

Sanborn Company map, 1888

12 Glebe Street, 1888.

Sanborn Company map, 1902

12 Glebe Street, 1902.