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A Crowded Spot

May 31, 2026 Ted Jennings - TPJ Photography Leave a comment

When I shot this it was a quick photo in passing. I was out with family and just a little walk through St. Philip’s (1723) since they are from out of town and it’s a special place.

Later on I looked a little closer. These stones are almost stacked on top of each other. This is in the ‘west’ graveyard, the church has two.

Most of the stones date from the 1760’s. View the image large for details.

The idea of two graveyards was to have the main yard around the church for Charleston residents only. The west site was for ‘lesser’ individuals. That’s funny since on the west side you find John Calhoun, 7th Vice President of the US. He is not considered ‘enough’ for the main site LOL. (he really was a pretty bad human)

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Found On A Walk – Civil War Cemetery

May 30, 2026 Ted Jennings - TPJ Photography 2 Comments

Everything, and everywhere, in Charleston is about history.

Most visitors walk around downtown, in the French Quarter, or the waterfront seawalls. However on the edge of town there are plantation homes, parks, and an area of marshes and land set aside 200 years ago for cemeteries.

Found On A Walk - Civil War Cemetery — Found On A Walk – Civil War Cemetery

The cemeteries are a history lesson of the US founding families, southern plantations, Civil Rights, the US Civil War, and famous architects. Oh, and photography.

Above; Charleston is known wrought iron work. Well known ironsmiths work can be found outside homes downtown, through out Europe, and many Museums. This photograph is part of an old burial plot near the Cooper River salt marshes.

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Found On A Walk, In An Old Cemetery

May 27, 2026 Ted Jennings - TPJ Photography Leave a comment

I felt the need for something different, so a little southern Gothic – Victorian look seemed right. 😆

Found on a walk…

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Found On A Walk

Photographed with OM-1 (1), OM 12-100 f4, OM 12-200, Olympus 40-150 r

Black And White Photography, Cemetery, Charleston, Historical, Landscape, Monochrome, OM System

New England Stones

May 10, 2026 Ted Jennings - TPJ Photography Leave a comment

These are old stones in Charleston. They sit behind the big churches and date back before the US revolution away from England.

Some of the dates were gone, the bottom of the stones buried deeper into the earth. I did see 1743 on one.

Charleston was becoming very wealthy in the mid 1700’s. But it was still a southern city surrounded by swamps, marshes, and Alligators.

The people below were wealthy and imported their stone markers. The stone carvers with skill were all in New England.

They all have the same general look so are easy to identify.

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Church

May 9, 2026 Ted Jennings - TPJ Photography Leave a comment

A few random church shots taken in passing the other day. These are all within one city block of each other. Some churches downtown share graveyards, burials separated by a wrought iron gate. All of them have been right there since the 1700’s.

Looking at South Carolina through the eyes of a northerner I’m pretty sure churches out number people.

Above is a ‘two-fer’. The spire is St. Philip’s, far right with the shorter spires is the French Huguenot Church.

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1795 – Richard Hutson

May 7, 2026 Ted Jennings - TPJ Photography Leave a comment

Richard Hutson – Founding Father USA

Graduated Princeton University 1765
Founder College Of Charleston
SC General Assembly 1776-1790
Imprisoned By British – Revolutionary War
Member Continental Congress
Signor US Articles Of Confederation
Lt. Governor 1782-1783
Mayor Of Charleston 1783
Senior Justice Court Of Chancery 1791-1794

1795 - Richard Hutson — 1795 – Richard Hutson

I don’t even know what some of those things are! Many of these roles required him to be in different places, all the time. And… he had to ride a horse there.

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Gateway Walk, Charleston

April 29, 2026 Ted Jennings - TPJ Photography Leave a comment

There’s an alley off King Street, one of the busiest streets in Charleston, SC. Very easy to walk past, but if you find it, and the gate’s open be sure to walk through.

The ‘Gateway Walk’ originated as a path between Charleston’s Circular Church and the Unitarian Church. They started out as the same congregation, but they ran out of room. Over time the path disappeared under newer streets of the 1800’s.

It was later, in the 1900’s, the back end was reopened, and finally reconnected to King Street.

Private homes have entrances on the alley, but the gem is where the Unitarian graveyard begins in the path, as well as St. John’s Lutheran Church graveyard. St. John’s being a newer Church dating from approximately 1767.

Below are a few of the old stones found in the pathways of the Unitarian, the gate small opens to St. John’s.

This thing of a Church, next to a Church, connected to another, etc. is why Charleston is called the ‘Holy City’. Denominations from all over the world settled here, this was an ‘open city’, even when the Church Of England was the accepted church and we were a colony. There are over 400 Cathedrals and Churches in the city limits.

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