‘The Reverend Andrew Flinn organized the congregation to accommodate the growing congregation at First (Scots) Presbyterian Church on lower Meeting Street. The new church was built at 342 Meeting St., Charleston, South Carolina at the then substantial cost of $100,000, and on April 3, 1811, it was dedicated as “The Second Presbyterian Church of Charleston and Its Suburbs.” The land had been obtained from the Wragg family.’ (Wikipedia)

I didn’t know the term ‘suburbs’ was in use when the church was built. The upper peninsula of Charleston was still country at that point. However it had been growing since the US Civil War since this area was out of range of canon fire during the second blockade of Charleston.

Note; the first blockade of Charleston was in 1718 by a fleet of pirates. The ships were lead by the well known ‘Blackbeard’ and Stede Bonnet. A ransom was paid, however a short while later a British fleet caught Bonnet. He was hung in Charleston Harbor after time in the infamous Charleston jail.

Click here to view our participation in the final documentation of that infamous prison… Charleston Jail . 

A tag for the Jail project is available top of this page also.