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  • Episode 310: Charleston's Centre Market, Established 1807

    Episode 310: Charleston's Centre Market, Established 1807
    2025/10/23
    In the spring of 1807, nineteen years after the initial creation of Market Street, Charleston’s municipal government faced a looming deadline to complete the proposed but long-delayed public marketplace. To avoid a second forfeiture of the extensive property donated by generous neighbors, City Council launched a rapid series of construction projects and drafted a landmark ordinance, the text of which defined the culture of urban food sales for the ensuing century.
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    27 分
  • Episode 309: The Restoration of Market Street, 1804–1807

    Episode 309: The Restoration of Market Street, 1804–1807
    2025/10/03
    Amidst another influx of French-speaking refugees in the spring of 1804, Charleston’s municipal authorities negotiated with property owners to resuscitate the Market Street plan scuttled more than a decade earlier. Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, the project’s principal donor, dictated new terms to city officials and set a three-year deadline, triggering a flurry of site work and legal negotiations that eventually secured the permanent establishment of the present historic marketplace.
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    30 分
  • Episode 308: Meandering Marketplaces in Urban Charleston, 1794–1805

    Episode 308: Meandering Marketplaces in Urban Charleston, 1794–1805
    2025/09/19
    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 meandered across the urban landscape for more than a decade. The older marketplaces in Tradd and Queen Streets absorbed most of the central-city commerce, while residents of peripheral neighborhoods briefly patronized forgotten smaller markets on South Bay and the east end of Calhoun Street.
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    26 分
  • Episode 307: The Refugees in Market Street, 1793

    Episode 307: The Refugees in Market Street, 1793
    2025/09/05
    The legal foundation of Market Street, created in 1788, dissolved in 1793 when the City of Charleston scrambled to address a refugee crisis that shocked the community. Few in the Palmetto City today recall how a revolutionary struggle for civil rights in the Caribbean island of Hispaniola sparked a bloody insurrection that forced thousands of French-speaking migrants to seek asylum here and in other port cities of the United States.
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    26 分
  • Episode 306: The Genesis of Market Street, 1783–1789

    Episode 306: The Genesis of Market Street, 1783–1789
    2025/08/15
    Market Street and its venerable public buildings exemplify the spirit of preservation and resilience in modern Charleston, but forgotten details of the site’s creation in the late eighteenth century shroud a troubled genesis. The city’s broadest thoroughfare was mostly underwater during its early years, and the site’s first edifice sheltered butchers only briefly before a distant political crisis unraveled its legal foundation.
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    26 分
  • Episode 305: The Waterfront Markets of Colonial Charleston

    Episode 305: The Waterfront Markets of Colonial Charleston
    2025/08/01
    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 that ply incessantly, bringing down the country produce to town.” In today’s Time Machine, let’s follow those watercraft to a series of market sites along the Charleston waterfront and explore the daily routine of vending fresh victuals during the community’s first century.
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    32 分
  • Episode 304: The Rise of Asphalt Roadways in Twentieth-Century Charleston

    Episode 304: The Rise of Asphalt Roadways in Twentieth-Century Charleston
    2025/07/11
    Modern travelers across the city and county of Charleston roll across a continuous ribbon of asphalt that facilitates an expanding cycle of population growth and cultural diversity. The roots of this blacktop conveyor belt extend back more than century, when a series of obscure political changes unleashed an unprecedented burst of infrastructure development that literally paved the road to Charleston’s present economic prosperity.
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    27 分
  • Episode 303: The Granite Roadways of Gilded-Age Charleston

    Episode 303: The Granite Roadways of Gilded-Age Charleston
    2025/06/27
    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 分