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Mt. Pleasant's disappearing waterfront

31 Dec 1969 by Sean in Charleston History

Charleston moves did a great piece on Mt. Pleasant’s historical waterfront.  What a shame it’s all gone.

“To put this in perspective, Mt. Pleasant, a roughly 100-acre village at the time, had 1.4 miles of publicly accessible waterfront along Charleston Harbor. Today’s Mt. Pleasant comprises approximately 36,000 acres of land and has very little publicly accessible waterfront along Charleston Harbor.”

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Schooner aground after hurricane

31 Dec 1969 by Sean in Charleston History

I have a thing for tall ships and the history of sailing.  You might have picked up on that when I interviewed a deckhand from the Spirit of Massachusetts.

The Flickr Commons has an incredible collection of old photos.  I was looking for old shots of schooners there and stumbled upon this photo of a big three-master aground after a hurricane in Florida.

schooner aground after Florida hurricane

You’ve got to imagine these boats were everywhere 100 years ago.  Charleston was (and is) a huge port, so you can imagine masts reaching to the sky all along the waterfront.

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