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Around Strawberry Chapel

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Built as a ‘chapel of ease’ in 1725 for planters who found it difficult to reach the main parish church, it is one of the few that still serves as a functioning church. Services are typical provided four times a year.

The chapel is surrounded by a small cemetery and overlooks the site of the former town of Childsbury, which faded with the decline of the surrounding plantations.

Around Strawberry Chapel
Around Strawberry Chapel

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Around Strawberry Chapel
Around Strawberry Chapel
Around Strawberry Chapel
Around Strawberry Chapel
Around Strawberry Chapel
Around Strawberry Chapel
Around Strawberry Chapel

Strawberry Chapel has Ball, Harleston, Waring and Stoney descendants actively working to protect its historic 1725 structure and graves. The property is privately owned in rural South Carolina.

 

Charleston, Historical, Landscape, OM System, What I Saw

Huguenot Church / French Quarter

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We were walking through town heading to the Gibbs Museum and I noticed the doors were open here for visitors. An open church door is like a gigantic hook…grabs my camera every time.

The first wooden church here was in 1645, this building was built in 1845. It was rebuilt once more, the French Quarter in Charleston was targeted by the Federal gunboats during our US Civil War.

Huguenot Church / French Quarter

Cemetery, Charleston, Historical, Landscape, OM System, What I Saw

Gateway Walk, Charleston

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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.

Gateway Walk
Gateway Walk

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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Gateway Walk
Gateway Walk
Gateway Walk
Gateway Walk
Gateway Walk
Gateway Walk

Charleston, South Carolina.

Charleston, Historical, Landscape, OM System, What I Saw

St. Philip’s Spire

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This is the tallest structure in Charleston. It has been kept that way be city ordinance. Nothing can be built taller.

St. Philip's Spire
St. Philip’s Spire

If you go outside the downtown area there are some buildings getting very close. I’m sure it’s only a matter of time until they allow hotels to exceed the limit.

Charleston is losing it’s soul to the tourist dollar. Just today someone from out of town asked what to see and do. There is still plenty to see, but less than just a few years ago. I don’t see how anyone could come for a weeks vacation anymore.

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1769 Prue Family

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Francis Prue (below) was buried here about the same time as the original wooden St. Philip’s Church was being built. That was 1769.  Her son, who died as an infant, is also buried in this spot. John Prue passed earlier and I didn’t see his grave. It was a few years before the Graveyard.

1769 Prue Family
1769 Prue Family

Based on the quality and style of the head stone it was created in New England and shipped her later on. That was common here since there were no stone carvers here at the time.

This is one of the earliest graves in Charleston. The oldest are in St. Michael’s down the street.

Photographed with OM-1 (1), OM 12-200 mm