Charleston Time Machine Podcast
1) Episode 312: The Demise of Butcher Town and the Charleston Abattoir
The enclave known as Butcher Town flourished around Cannon’s millpond until 1850, when the expansion of Charleston’s city limits propelled the slaughtering business northward. The migration of butcher...Show More
2) Episode 311: The Path to Butcher Town, Charleston's Slaughtering Suburb
The residents of early Charleston lived cheek-by-jowl with the animals they consumed, and routinely witnessed cattle, pigs, sheep, and goats trotting through urban streets to meet the butcher’s blade....Show More
3) Episode 310: Charleston's Centre Market, Established 1807
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 marketpla...Show More
4) Episode 309: The Restoration of Market Street, 1804–1807
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 d...Show More
5) Episode 308: Meandering Marketplaces in Urban Charleston, 1794–1805
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...Show More
6) Episode 307: The Refugees in Market Street, 1793
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 r...Show More
7) Episode 306: The Genesis of Market Street, 1783–1789
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 s...Show More
8) Episode 305: The Waterfront Markets of Colonial Charleston
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 pr...Show More
9) Episode 304: The Rise of Asphalt Roadways in Twentieth-Century Charleston
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 ...Show More
10) Episode 303: The Granite Roadways of Gilded-Age Charleston
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 ...Show More