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Charleston Time Machine

Charleston Time Machine

De: Nic Butler Ph.D.
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Dr. Nic Butler, historian at the Charleston County Public Library, explores the less familiar corners of local history with stories that invite audiences to reflect on the enduring presence of the past in the Lowcountry of South Carolina.All rights reserved Mundial
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  • Episode 307: The Refugees in Market Street, 1793

    Episode 307: The Refugees in Market Street, 1793
    Sep 5 2025
    The legal foundation of Market Street, created in 1788, dissolved in 1793 when the City of Charleston scrambled to address a refugee crisis that shocked the community. Few in the Palmetto City today recall how a revolutionary struggle for civil rights in the Caribbean island of Hispaniola sparked a bloody insurrection that forced thousands of French-speaking migrants to seek asylum here and in other port cities of the United States.
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    26 m
  • Episode 306: The Genesis of Market Street, 1783–1789

    Episode 306: The Genesis of Market Street, 1783–1789
    Aug 15 2025
    Market Street and its venerable public buildings exemplify the spirit of preservation and resilience in modern Charleston, but forgotten details of the site’s creation in the late eighteenth century shroud a troubled genesis. The city’s broadest thoroughfare was mostly underwater during its early years, and the site’s first edifice sheltered butchers only briefly before a distant political crisis unraveled its legal foundation.
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    26 m
  • Episode 305: The Waterfront Markets of Colonial Charleston

    Episode 305: The Waterfront Markets of Colonial Charleston
    Aug 1 2025
    In the spring of 1751, Governor James Glen described the Cooper River as “a kind of floating market,” hosting “numbers of canoes boats and pettyaguas that ply incessantly, bringing down the country produce to town.” In today’s Time Machine, let’s follow those watercraft to a series of market sites along the Charleston waterfront and explore the daily routine of vending fresh victuals during the community’s first century.
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    32 m
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