1872 Birdseye View of Charleston Charles Town This image is enhanced with

This image is enhanced with a painting of a crab

It was completed under the direction of Professor Alexander Dallas Bache

Both the Spanish and the French attempted settlements along the Carolina coast in the 1500s and1600s

Fort Wagner was the target of the famous Union charge by the 54th Massachusetts

Fort Marion

1872 Birdseye View of Charleston Charles Town This image is enhanced withThis 1872 Birdseye View map of Charleston shows a city much changed from its pre war vitality. In 1865, at the end of the Civil War, Charleston was a city in ruins. It had vacant buildings and damaged homes, wharves that were decayed and rotten, deserted warehouses, overgrown gardens, a high number of orphans and widows, poverty, and little cultural identity. The Civil War had taken its toll on South Carolina, particularly Charleston. South Carolinas