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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 303: The Granite Roadways of Gilded-Age Charleston

    Episode 303: The Granite Roadways of Gilded-Age Charleston
    Jun 27 2025
    During the twilight years of the nineteenth century, radical changes to local thoroughfares helped the City of Charleston evolve from a declining seaport into a tidy modern metropolis. Uniform blocks of durable granite displaced most of the city’s lumpy cobblestone streets during the 1880s, after which the municipal government achieved mixed results with trials of several curious paving compounds.
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    24 m
  • Episode 302: Reconstructing the Streets of Post-Civil War Charleston

    Episode 302: Reconstructing the Streets of Post-Civil War Charleston
    May 30 2025
    Amidst the financial doldrums that followed the American Civil War, Charlestonians struggled to reconstruct their politics, rebuild their economy, and repair a neglected streetscape. Budget constraints compelled officials of the late 1860s and 1870s to perpetuate old-fashioned paving habits and to recycle outdated materials, but a few novel additions to the public right-of-way cheered the spirits of local drivers, pedestrians, and velocipedestrians.
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    26 m
  • Episode 301: Cobbling the Streets of Antebellum Charleston

    Episode 301: Cobbling the Streets of Antebellum Charleston
    May 16 2025
    Charleston’s cobblestone streets fascinate residents and visitors alike, inspiring visions of pirates and horse-drawn carriages rattling through ye olde colonial capital. Imported from Europe as ship ballast since the 1670s, these roundish stones provided the city’s earliest street covering, but the campaign to pave local thoroughfares with cobbles didn’t commence until the early 1800s. To better understand the traveling conditions endured by early Charlestonians, let’s take a stroll through paving history from colonial times to the American Civil War.
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    30 m
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