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Episode 16: 148 Years of Bicycling In Charleston - Charleston Time Machine

Charleston Time Machine
Charleston Time Machine
Episode • May 10, 2017 • 20m
I’ve been collecting information about the history of bicycles in our community for several years now, and almost all of the information I’ve gathered comes from old Charleston newspapers. At first I wasn’t even looking for information about this topic. I was actually browsing through some post-Civil-War newspapers a few years back, looking for facts to use in a program about Civil Rights history, when I happened to stumble into a very brief description of the first bicycle in the Lowcountry, which appeared on streets of downtown Charleston on the 14th of February 1869.

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