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

 

 

JAMES ADGER SMYTH

Elected mayor December 10, 1895, succeeding John F. Ficken. Re-elected December 12, 1899. Succeeded by R. Goodwyn Rhett, December 1903.
Born 1837, died April 25, 1920, buried in Second Presbyterian churchyard.
Son of Thomas Smyth and Margaret Milligan Adger, married Ann Ransom Briggs 1858; married Ella Calvert Campbell 1903.
Member of Second Presbyterian Church
Graduate (1858) of College of Charleston.
Confederate Army, April 1862 to 1865, Company A, 25th South Carolina Infantry Regiment.
Factor/merchant with Adger and Smyth. Planted cotton at his wife's Cedar Grove Plantation, Sumter District.
Alderman, 1877-1885.

"Ex-Mayor Smyth Has Passed Away." News and Courier, April 26, 1920.
Garlington, J. C. Men of the Time. Sketches of Living Notables. A Biographical Encyclopedia of Contemporaneous South Carolina Leaders. Spartanburg: Garlington Publishing Co., 1902. (http://books.google.com)
Hemphill, J. C. Men of Mark in South Carolina. Ideals of American Life. A Collection of Biographies of Leading Men of the State. Washington DC: Men of Mark Publishing Co., 1908. (http://books.google.com)
Trinkley, Michael, Nicole Southerland, and Sarah Fick. Reconnaissance Cultural Resources Survey of Cantey Bay Plantation, Clarendon County, South Carolina. Chicora Research Contribution 494. Columbia: Chicora Foundation, Inc., 2008.
Zierden, Martha A., et. al. Excavations at 14 Legare Street. Archaeological Contributions 28. Charleston: The Charleston Museum, 2001.


Photos

Year Book, City of Charleston 1903. Courtesy of Charleston County Public Library

Mayor J. Adger Smyth

Courtesy Glenn Keyes Architects.

14 Legare Street. J. Adger Smyth bought this house in 1879 from his business partner, Andrew Adger. It remained in the Smyth family until 1930, when his widow sold it to Walter J. Salmon. 14 Legare Street was built ca. 1801 for Francis Simmons, and sold in 1816 to George Edwards, who added the famous Pineapple Gate.

Sanborn Company map, 1888

14 Legare Street, 1888

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

General location of 14 Legare Street in 1739.