* Hutchisson, James, M .: Dubose Heyward: A Charleston Gentleman and the World of Porgy and Bess, University Press of Mississippi, 2000 ISBN 1-57806-250-0

Heyward was born in 1885 in Charleston, South Carolina.

Heyward and his wife Dorothy, whom he met at the MacDowell Colony in 1922, spent many years in Charleston.

Heyward continued to explore black Charleston with another novel set in Catfish Row, Mamba's Daughters ( 1929 ), which he and Dorothy also adapted as a play.

* 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.

Many Huguenots found their way to Charleston.

Sandwiched between unfriendly natives to the west, Cherokee, Shawnee and Creek Native American tribes, and indifference on the part of English officials in Charleston, who considered residents of the Backcountry uncivilized, the early settlers frequently found themselves targets of Native American raids, and the local militia became an early police force, patrolling the area for possible Native American or slave troubles and controlling the seemingly numerous outlaw bands which roamed the region.

The settlers, largely farmers, came from Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Virginia, in search for fertile and cheap land which they found around Charleston.

Arriving in Charleston on March 3, 1861, Beauregard met with Governor Pickens and inspected the defenses of the harbor, which he found to be in disarray.

Vanessa Bell found the house named Charleston near Firle in Sussex.

Underwood was admitted to the Charleston Area Medical Center's Memorial Hospital on November 23, 2008 for chest congestion, and doctors found some slight bleeding in the brain.

In October 2008, an interpretive center opened on Nielsen Avenue with exhibits on the history of the Charleston area and wildlife and plants found within the park.

Gray and Williams joined the lineup soon thereafter and the band was frequently found busking on the corner of Church and Market Streets in Charleston.

Bachman served the same Charleston, South Carolina church as pastor for 56 years but still found time to conduct natural history studies that caught the attention of noted bird artist John James Audubon and eminent scientists in England, Europe, and beyond.

Evidence for the Van Arsdale-Cox explanation is found in the presence of the seismic zones centered on New Madrid, Missouri, and Charleston, South Carolina, each the source of devastating earthquakes in the 19th century, and in diamond-bearing kimberlite pipes in Arkansas, which are products of volcanism.

When the Burn reorganized the team following their dismal 2003 campaign, Hendrickson found himself without a team in MLS, and briefly signed with the Charleston Battery of the A-League.

During this time she found new inspiration for her landscape theme and executed works such as Road from Charleston to Savannah and A Field, Late Afternoon, Charleston, South Carolina.

It was also during her time in Charleston that Perry found a new theme for her landscapes, what she referred to as “ snowscapes .” These landscapes laden with snow became a passion for Perry who bundled herself up in blankets and hot water bottles in order to capture the beauty of a 4 a. m. sunrise.

It would seem that only a few Jews found their way to Maryland during the first half of the 17th century, and that the first settlers of this colony came as individuals, and not in considerable numbers at any time, as was the case in New York, Newport, Savannah, and Charleston.

Critics of this larger definition point that the Charleston-North Charleston-Summerville metropolitan area, frequently used by those living in the City of Charleston, borrowed the Lowcountry moniker in an attempt to give a name to their region of the state ; however, supporters point that many of the same geographic qualities and features found in the smaller area are also found throughout the three metropolitan counties as well.

Many dispossessed indigo, tobacco and cotton planters departed from Speightstown along with their slaves and helped found Charleston after there was a wholesale move to adopt sugar cane cultivation in Barbados ; a land and labour intensive enterprise which helped usher in the era of Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade in the British West Indies.

Despite his tactical success, Rawdon found it necessary to abandon Camden two weeks later and withdraw toward Charleston, South Carolina.

The Banana cockroach ( Panchlora nivea ) is a small species of Cockroach that is found in Cuba and the Caribbean, and along the gulf coast from Florida to Texas and has been observed as far north as Charleston, South Carolina.

He led the party on 20 km north to where Charleston would later be, but although they found gold in the sand there, it was too fine to save.

However in 1975-79 remains of around 99 hotels where found by old bottle collectors in the Charleston area which have been documented, with the European hotel the last surviving hotel which was pulled down after the 100 year festivities around 1968.

On July 29, 1835, Charleston Postmaster Alfred Huger found abolitionist literature in the mail, and refused to deliver it.

There is no evidence that Edgar Allan Poe had heard of this legend, but locals insist it was his inspiration, especially considering Poe was briefly stationed in Charleston while in the army in 1827.

For example, Plate 58 was an inspiration for the river façade of Mount Airy, Richmond County, Virginia, and perhaps for the floorplan of Drayton Hall in Charleston County, South Carolina, as well.

Beautiful homes and gardens are trademarks of the South and cities particularly noted for them are Charleston, S.C., Natchez, Miss., and Savannah, Ga..

According to the U. S. National Center for Health Statistics, as well as a 2006 series in the Charleston ( West Virginia ) Gazette, medical examiners listed methadone as contributing to 3, 849 deaths in 2004.

* October – Stede Bonnet and his crew are captured near the mouth of the Cape Fear River and taken to Charleston, South Carolina, where they are tried for piracy.

Bloomsbury artists rejected the traditional distinction between fine and decorative art, as can be seen at Charleston Farmhouse near Lewes in Sussex where Vanessa Bell, her children and Duncan Grant moved in 1916 for the rest of their lives.

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.

He was interred at the St. Philip's Church yard in Charleston, South Carolina in the section for non-members.

In July 2011, Howard Swint of Charleston, West Virginia threatened to sue the city of Marlborough in an attempt to obtain the bell for Harpers Ferry.

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

* July 4, 1886: Charleston, South Carolina During Sunday school, Emma Connelly shot and killed John Steedley for " circulating slanderous reports " about her, even though her brother publicly whipped him a few days earlier.

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

The peak year for the Charleston as a dance by the public was mid 1926 to 1927.

While the Charleston as a dance probably came from the " star " or challenge dances that were all part of the African-American dance called Juba, the particular sequence of steps which appeared in Runnin ' Wild were probably newly devised for popular appeal.

In the words of Harold Courlander, while the Charleston had some characteristics of traditional Negro dance, it " was a synthetic creation, a newly-devised conglomerate tailored for wide spread popular appeal.

As defined by the U. S. Office of Management and Budget, and used by the U. S. Census Bureau for statistical purposes only, Charleston is a principal city for the Charleston – North Charleston – Summerville Metropolitan Statistical Area and the Charleston-North Charleston urban area.

Charleston is known as The Holy City perhaps by virtue of the prominence of churches on the low-rise cityscape, perhaps because, like Mecca, its devotees hold it so dear, and perhaps for the fact that Carolina was among the few original thirteen colonies to provide toleration for all Protestant religions, though it was not open to Roman Catholics.

The port of Charleston was the main dropping point for Africans captured and transported to the United States for sale as slaves.