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Charleston Time Machine
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.
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Episode 324: The Return of the Scorpion in late 1775
The return of the sloop-of-war Scorpion to South Carolina in late November 1775 heightened rebel fears of an attack on Charleston, but the warship’s r...
Credits: 010
Featuring Dr. Nic Butler of the Charleston Time Machine podcast, our latest Listening Booth series celebrates the 250th anniversary of the American Re...
Victory Day in Charleston, December 14th, 1782: 009
Featuring Dr. Nic Butler of the Charleston Time Machine podcast, our latest Listening Booth series celebrates the 250th anniversary of the American Re...
Sampson Waldron: Ship Pilot Extraordinary: 008
Featuring Dr. Nic Butler of the Charleston Time Machine podcast, our latest Listening Booth series celebrates the 250th anniversary of the American Re...
Phebe Fletcher: A ‘Magdalene’ in Revolutionary Charleston: 007
Featuring Dr. Nic Butler of the Charleston Time Machine podcast, our latest Listening Booth series celebrates the 250th anniversary of the American Re...
The Liberty Tree in Revolutionary Charleston: 006
Featuring Dr. Nic Butler of the Charleston Time Machine podcast, our latest Listening Booth series celebrates the 250th anniversary of the American Re...
John Champneys and his Controversial Row: 005
Featuring Dr. Nic Butler of the Charleston Time Machine podcast, our latest Listening Booth series celebrates the 250th anniversary of the American Re...
The First Step towards Revolution, 21 April 1775: 004
Featuring Dr. Nic Butler of the Charleston Time Machine podcast, our latest Listening Booth series celebrates the 250th anniversary of the American Re...
Declaring Independence in 1776 Charleston: 003
Featuring Dr. Nic Butler of the Charleston Time Machine podcast, our latest Listening Booth series celebrates the 250th anniversary of the American Re...
Carolina Day: June 28th, 1776: 002
Featuring Dr. Nic Butler of the Charleston Time Machine podcast, our latest Listening Booth series celebrates the 250th anniversary of the American Re...
Introduction: 001
Featuring Dr. Nic Butler of the Charleston Time Machine podcast, our latest Listening Booth series celebrates the 250th anniversary of the American Re...
Episode 323: Firefight in Hog Island Channel: South Carolina's Tipping Point to War with Britain
Episode 323: Firefight in Hog Island Channel: South Carolina's Tipping Point to War with Britain by Nic Butler, Ph.D.
Episode 322: Sullivan's Island, October 1775: An Emergent Loyalist Sanctuary
The last vestiges of royal authority in South Carolina, huddled within two small warships anchored in Charleston Harbor, survived the autumn of 1775 b...
Episode 321: Posturing in Charleston Harbor, September 1775: Prelude to a Firefight
Episode 321: Posturing in Charleston Harbor, September 1775: Prelude to a Firefight by Nic Butler, Ph.D.
Episode 320: The Collapse of British Rule in South Carolina, September 1775
One hundred and five years after the founding of modern South Carolina, the king’s royal governor dissolved the provincial government and fled the cap...
Episode 319: The Tamar in Rebellion Road: Asylum for Loyalists in 1775
Episode 319: The Tamar in Rebellion Road: Asylum for Loyalists in 1775 by Nic Butler, Ph.D.
Episode 318: The Flight of Sampson the Pilot in the Summer of 1775
In the summer of 1775, amid smoldering tension between the British government rebellious colonists, officers of the Royal Navy in Charleston quietly n...
Episode 317: The First Days of South Carolina's Last Royal Governor
Lord William Campbell, the new royal governor of the colony of South Carolina, stepped ashore at Charleston in late June 1775 to an uneasy reception....
Episode 316: Governor William Campbell and the Scorpion, sailing to Charleston in 1775
The first sparks of the American Revolution ignited during the spring of 1775, while Lord William Campbell prepared to sail from England to his post a...
Episode 315: Lord William Campbell, Sarah Izard, and their Carolina Connection, Part 2
The newlyweds, Lord and Lady William Campbell, settled in England after their 1763 marriage in Charleston, but the young couple actively nurtured fami...
Episode 314: Lord William Campbell, Sarah Izard, and their Carolina Connection, Part 1
In the late winter of 1763, a young British officer sailed into Charleston Harbor aboard a warship assigned to protect the trade of a flourishing colo...
Episode 313: The 1775 Debut of the South Carolina Flag
In the autumn of 1775, rebellious South Carolinians raised a distinctive new flag over a waterfront fort just seized from British hands. Their command...
Episode 312: The Demise of Butcher Town and the Charleston Abattoir
The enclave known as Butcher Town flourished around Cannon’s millpond until 1850, when the expansion of Charleston’s city limits propelled the slaught...
Episode 311: The Path to Butcher Town, Charleston's Slaughtering Suburb
The residents of early Charleston lived cheek-by-jowl with the animals they consumed, and routinely witnessed cattle, pigs, sheep, and goats trotting...
Episode 310: Charleston's Centre Market, Established 1807
In the spring of 1807, nineteen years after the initial creation of Market Street, Charleston’s municipal government faced a looming deadline to compl...
Episode 309: The Restoration of Market Street, 1804–1807
Amidst another influx of French-speaking refugees in the spring of 1804, Charleston’s municipal authorities negotiated with property owners to resusci...
Episode 308: Meandering Marketplaces in Urban Charleston, 1794–1805
Following the conversion of the city’s new Beef Market into a dormitory in the autumn of 1793, the business of vending fresh provisions in Charleston...
Episode 307: The Refugees in Market Street, 1793
The legal foundation of Market Street, created in 1788, dissolved in 1793 when the City of Charleston scrambled to address a refugee crisis that shock...
Episode 306: The Genesis of Market Street, 1783–1789
Market Street and its venerable public buildings exemplify the spirit of preservation and resilience in modern Charleston, but forgotten details of th...
Episode 305: The Waterfront Markets of Colonial Charleston
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...
Episode 304: The Rise of Asphalt Roadways in Twentieth-Century Charleston
Modern travelers across the city and county of Charleston roll across a continuous ribbon of asphalt that facilitates an expanding cycle of population...
Episode 303: The Granite Roadways of Gilded-Age Charleston
During the twilight years of the nineteenth century, radical changes to local thoroughfares helped the City of Charleston evolve from a declining seap...
Episode 302: Reconstructing the Streets of Post-Civil War Charleston
Amidst the financial doldrums that followed the American Civil War, Charlestonians struggled to reconstruct their politics, rebuild their economy, and...
Episode 301: Cobbling the Streets of Antebellum Charleston
Charleston’s cobblestone streets fascinate residents and visitors alike, inspiring visions of pirates and horse-drawn carriages rattling through ye ol...
Episode 300: Frederick Douglass in 1888 Charleston
Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) was a towering figure in the history of the United States, occupying the vanguard of the nation’s struggle for African-...
Episode 299: The Orange Economy of Colonial Charleston
Orange trees and their delicious fruit are not native to North America, but they form a curious and poorly-remembered chapter in South Carolina’s earl...
Episode 298: Illuminating the Streets of Early Charleston
Can you imagine navigating the streets and roads of Charleston County between dusk and dawn without the aid of street lamps? The earliest inhabitants...
Episode 297: Giving Thanks for Native American Food in 1670 Charleston
Thanksgiving, an American holiday rooted in harvest celebrations, acknowledges the bounty of food so many of us take for granted. This tradition in So...
Episode 296: Charleston Common: A Brief History of A Fractured Landscape
The place-name “Charleston Common” applies to a large swath of land reserved for public use since 1735. Conscious that the provincial capital lacked a...
Episode 295: Mutiny and Murder aboard Nuestra Señora de la Concepçion, Part 4
The trial of Hispanic carpenter Joseph Lortia, accused of confederating with pirates aboard the Cuban schooner Nuestra Señora, unfolded through a seri...