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 PALMER GAILLARD, JR. 

Elected mayor December 11, 1959, succeeding William M. Morrison. Re-elected 1963, 1967, and 1971. Resigned to accept the position of deputy assistant secretary of the U. S. Navy for reserve affairs; succeeded by Arthur B. Schirmer, Jr., August 1975.
Born 1920, died July 28, 2006, buried in St. Philip's Episcopal churchyard.
Son of J. Palmer Gaillard and Eleanor Lucas, married Lucy Foster 1944.
Businessman, established Seaboard Lumber & Supply Company in 1947; 1975-1985 vice-president of Ruscon Corporation.
Served four years in U. S. Navy beginning December 1941.
Twice elected to Charleston City Council, 1951 and 1955.

Gaillard, J. Palmer, Jr. Boards to Boardrooms: The Life and Memoirs of J. Palmer Gaillard, Jr. Charleston, 2004.
"Gaillard Reviews His 10 Years as Mayor." News and Courier, December 14, 1969.
"Gaillard to Resign." News and Courier, April 25, 1975.
"J. Palmer Gaillard, Jr., 1920-2006. A True Public Servant." Post and Courier, July 29, 2006.


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