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

 

Lord William Campbell

Governor June 1775 – September 1775

South Carolina’s last royal governor, Lord William Campbell was born about 1730, a younger son of the Duke of Argyll. He entered the royal navy, serving in India from 1752 until 1760. By August 1762 he had risen to the rank of captain. While commanding the Nightingale, William Campbell visited South Carolina; in April 1763, he married Sarah Izard, a daughter of Ralph Izard.

Lord William Campbell was appointed governor of Nova Scotia, traveling from England in late 1766. The next year he went back for his wife, and they returned to Nova Scotia in September 1768.

After South Carolina’s governor, Lord Charles Greville Montagu, left the colony in 1773, Lord William Campbell petitioned for the vacant governorship. He received appointment in June 1773, and sailed to England from Nova Scotia.

After spending over a year in England, William Campbell arrived in Charleston on June 17, 1775. Revolution was inevitable, and despite a proper ceremonial greeting, the new royal governor faced a hostile reception. The assembly would not do business with him.

Governor William Campbell was forced to flee in September 1775. A small boat came up Vanderhorst’s Creek to the back of his garden, and he went aboard the British warship Tamar; from there he dissolved the Commons House of Assembly. After sending Lady Sarah Campbell to safety outside Charleston, Campbell remained on the Tamar in Charleston harbor.

When British admiral Sir Peter Parker’s fleet arrived off Charleston with the intention of taking the city, Lord William Campbell joined the admiral’s vessel Bristol. He was wound

Photos

AP Photo/Christie’s of London

Lord William Campbell, portrait by Thomas Gainsborough.

Preservation Society of Charleston

Royal Governor Lord William Campbell and Lady Sarah Campbell stayed at 34 Meeting Street, which was owned by her cousin, Lady Elizabeth Blake of Newington Plantation.

Bishop Roberts and W. H. Toms, The Ichnography of Charles-Town at High Water. London, 1739.

Site of 34 Meeting Street in 1739, before Vanderhorst’s Creek was filled to create Water Street.

Edmund Petrie, Ichnography of Charleston, South Carolina. London, Phoenix Fire Company, 1788. American Memory, Library of Congress http://memory.loc.gov/

34 Meeting Street, 1788. Built on a lot purchased by John Bull in 1759, the masonry double house became an income property owned by his granddaughter Mrs. Elizabeth (Izard) Blake.

Charleston County Deed Book N6, p. 362

In 1795, the Bull lot was divided. The executors of Mrs. Elizabeth Blake sold 34 Meeting Street to the Honorable Lewis Morris. The east part of the lot, today's 39 Church Street, was purchased by Dr. John Lewis Polony.

Sanborn Company Map

34 Meeting Street, 1888.

Sanborn Company Map

34 Meeting Street, 1929. The double piazza at the south side was added after 1910.

copy of painting held by Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Williamsburg, Virginia

James Peale, "Sir Peter Parker's Attack Against Fort Moultrie." Lord William Campbell was aboard the flagship HMS Bristol.