* 1904 – The Pi Kappa Phi Fraternity is founded at the College of Charleston.

Elijah's offering is consumed by fire from heaven in a stained glass window at St. Matthew's German Evangelical Lutheran Church in Charleston, South Carolina

Lindy was a fusion of many dances that preceded it or were popular during its development but is mainly based on jazz, tap, breakaway and Charleston.

Dignity "; however, the actual step shown in the animation is the Charleston.

* 1780 – American Revolutionary War: In the largest defeat of the Continental Army, Charleston, South Carolina is taken by British forces.

Johnson composed the song that is arguably most associated with the Roaring Twenties, " Charleston.

* March 19 – The is destroyed on her maiden voyage while attempting to run the blockade into Charleston, South Carolina.

* December 10 – The Pi Kappa Phi Fraternity is founded at the College of Charleston in Charleston, SC.

* October 25 – The wreck of the Confederate submarine Hunley is found off Charleston, South Carolina, by pioneer underwater archaeologist, Dr. E. Lee Spence, then just 22 years old.

* The King's Highway ( Charleston to Boston ) is completed.

* March 19 – The wreck of the SS Georgiana, reputed to have been the most powerful Confederate cruiser ever built and owned by the real Rhett Butler, is discovered off the Isle of Palms, South Carolina, by teenage diver E. Lee Spence, exactly 102 years after she was sunk with a million dollar cargo while attempting to run past the Union blockade into Charleston.

* May 12 – American Revolutionary War: Charleston, South Carolina is taken by British forces.

* December 10 – Stede Bonnet is hanged at Charleston after being recaptured.

( Charleston is now open to visitors, as is Monk's House, the Rodmell cottage the Woolfs moved to in 1919, now owned by the National Trust.

His four children with Nancy are: Nancy Moore Thurmond ( 1971 – 1993 ), a beauty pageant contestant who was killed when a drunk driver hit her in Columbia, South Carolina ; James Strom Thurmond Jr. ( born 1972 ), who became U. S. Attorney for the District of South Carolina and is the current South Carolina 2nd Judicial Circuit Solicitor ; Juliana Gertrude ( Thurmond ) Whitmer ( born 1974 ), a married homemaker in Washington, DC ; and Paul Reynolds Thurmond ( born 1976 ), elected member of the Charleston County council.

By definition, Greater Las Vegas is a tectonic valley, surrounded by four mountain ranges, with nearby Mount Charleston being the highest elevation at, located to the northwest.

Other than the forests on Mount Charleston, the geography in Clark County is a desert.

Putnam County is part of the Charleston, WV metropolitan area, with a 2011 Census population estimate of 303, 674 people.

Since the county is roughly equidistant between Charleston and Huntington, the state's two largest cities, along Interstate 64, the area has undergone a period of rapid suburbanization.

Clay County is part of the Charleston, WV metropolitan area.

Espedair Street is also a real street in Charleston, Paisley, where some of the significant events in the book take place.

The Charleston is a dance named for the harbor city of Charleston, South Carolina.

He donated all their research materials, most of which were the product of his career, to the College of Charleston, insisting that the collection be known under Towles ' name alone.

Griffin's first independent commission was a landscape design for the State Normal School at Charleston, Illinois, now known as the Eastern Illinois University.

Three of the best known in the United States during the 19th century are the revolts by Gabriel Prosser in Virginia in 1800, Denmark Vesey in Charleston, South Carolina in 1822, and Nat Turner in Southampton County, Virginia, in 1831.

Although the step known as " Jay-Bird ", and other specific movement sequences are of Afro-American origin, no record of the Charleston being performed on the plantation has been discovered.

On June 21, 1775, Marion was commissioned Captain in the 2nd South Carolina Regiment under William Moultrie, with whom he served in June 1776 in the defense of Fort Sullivan ( today known as Fort Moultrie ), in Charleston harbor.

However, parts of the county had long been known as retreats, including the " Little Charleston " of Flat Rock in which South Carolina's Low Country planter families had maintained second homes since the early 19th century.

The city was originally known as Madison Station, and grew up in the 1850s around a stop of the Memphis & Charleston Railroad.

The town gradually formed around a water and coaling stop of the Memphis & Charleston Railroad and was originally known as Gurley's Tank.

Post Office Department officials, realizing the need for faster mail service, had begun drawing up a contract to award to either the Plant System ( then known as the Savannah, Florida and Western ) or the Seaboard Air Line Railroad, both of which operated south of the ACL termination point of Charleston, South Carolina.

The county seat, initially known as Charleston, was laid out in a T-shape formed by what is now Main Street and Everett Street ( the latter street was named for the county's first sheriff, Epp Everett ).

Robert Scanlon, a former slave and freedman carpenter, purchased the property known as Remley's Plantation bordering Charleston Harbor along the Wando River in Mount Pleasant.

The Charleston Land Company and Scanlonville are one of the only four known cooperative ventures among African-American freedmen after the Civil War.

Charleston was the site of the last Cherokee Agency as well as Fort Cass, the headquarters of the Cherokee Removal of 1838, known as the Trail of Tears.

South Charleston attractions include Criel Mound ( also known as the South Charleston Adena Burial Mound ), and the South Charleston Museum.

At which time all the volunteers were released and they formed the organization today known as the Charleston County Volunteer Rescue Squad.

This dance style came from Charleston, and its earliest known use was a contest in Venice Beach in 1932.

In Grant's later years, the poet Paul Roche ( 1916 – 2007 ), whom he had known since 1946, took care of him and enabled Grant to maintain his accustomed way of life at Charleston for many years.

It was the site of two American Civil War battles in the campaign known as Operations Against the Defenses of Charleston in 1863, and is considered one of the toughest beachhead defenses constructed by the Confederate States Army.

Hampton was born in Charleston, South Carolina, the eldest son of Wade Hampton II ( 1791 – 1858 ), known as " Colonel Wade Hampton ", one of the wealthiest planters in the South ( and the owner of the largest number of slaves ), an officer of dragoons in the War of 1812, and an aide to General Andrew Jackson at the Battle of New Orleans.

It was the scene of heavy fighting during the Union Army's campaign to capture Charleston, and is perhaps best known today as the scene of the ill-fated assault by the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, an African-American regiment.

That group, called is commonly known as The Church of God ( Charleston, Tennessee ).

The “ Spanish Conspiracy ,” as it is known, was initiated by Wilkinson ’ s “ First Memorial ,” a 7, 500-word report written before he left New Orleans for Charleston, South Carolina, from New Orleans, to the Spanish concerning the “ political future of western settlers ” and to convince Spain to “ admit us under protection as vassals ”.