New book remembers the urban landscape of ‘Lost Charleston’
The book features fascinating photographs of these buildings and short essays describing their history and demise. No one alive today would remember the Ivory City, torn down for scrap in 1902, or the Henry Laurens House, demolished in 1914.
The city was a different place back then, when tall ships docked at the wharves, cotton was cultivated on the sea islands and Morris Island still had a lighthouse keeper’s residence.
Each place has a story to tell, Handal said, and she reveled in the discoveries her research brought to light.
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