Charleston Time Machine
Nic Butler, Ph.D.Dr. Nic Butler, historian at the Charleston County Public Library, explores the less familiar corners of local history with stories that invite audiences to reflect on the enduring presence of the past in the Lowcountry of South Carolina.
Episode 298: Illuminating the Streets of Early Charleston
Dec 13, 2024 • 33m
Episode 297: Giving Thanks for Native American Food in 1670 Charleston
Nov 22, 2024 • 25m
Episode 291: Line Street: Vestige of the War of 1812
Sep 20, 2024 • 36m
Episode 290: Charleston’s Suburban Racecourse and Slave Auction Site
Sep 6, 2024 • 32m
Episode 288: Charleston's Forgotten First Orphan House, 1790–94
Aug 2, 2024 • 28m
Episode 287: Colleton Square: Prelude to Market Street
Jul 19, 2024 • 29m
Episode 286: The Charleston Gunpowder Plot of 1731, Part 2
Jun 28, 2024 • 28m
Episode 285: The Charleston Gunpowder Plot of 1731, Part 1
Jun 21, 2024 • 23m
Episode 283: A Hawaiian Band in Charleston, 1901–2
May 24, 2024 • 27m
Episode 282: Union Pier: Mobility Nexus through the Centuries
May 10, 2024 • 25m
Episode 281: Surf Bathing at Sullivan's Island In the 19th Century
Apr 26, 2024 • 32m
Episode 280: Cash and Credit in South Carolina before the U.S. Dollar
Apr 12, 2024 • 29m
Episode 279: Phebe Fletcher: A ‘Magdalene’ in Revolutionary Charleston
Mar 29, 2024 • 26m
Episode 278: Thomas Francis Meagher, Irish Patriot, in Charleston
Mar 15, 2024 • 33m
Episode 275: John L. Dart, Champion of Education
Feb 2, 2024 • 32m
Episode 274: The Beef Market under Charleston's City Hall
Jan 19, 2024 • 28m
Episode 273: The First Football Match in Charleston, Christmas Eve 1892
Dec 15, 2023 • 31m
Episode 271: Free Indians In Amity with the State: A Legal Legacy
Nov 17, 2023 • 32m
Episode 270: The Native American Land Cessions of 1684
Nov 9, 2023 • 30m
Episode 269: The Ghosts of Petit Versailles
Oct 27, 2023 • 28m
Episode 267: Spanish and Cuban Consuls in Charleston, 1795–1959
Sep 29, 2023 • 29m
Episode 266: Inventing the French Quarter in 1973
Sep 15, 2023 • 26m
Episode 265: Hog Island to Patriots Point: A Brief History
Sep 1, 2023 • 32m
Episode 264: John Champneys and His Controversial Row, Part 2
Aug 11, 2023 • 30m
Episode 263: John Champneys and His Controversial Row, Part 1
Aug 4, 2023 • 25m
Episode 262: Bathing to Beat the Heat in Early Charleston, Part 2
Jul 21, 2023 • 32m
Episode 261: Bathing to Beat the Heat in Early Charleston, Part 1
Jul 14, 2023 • 21m
Episode 260: Anson's Landing to Gadsden’s Wharf: A Brief History
Jun 30, 2023 • 25m
Episode 259: Charleston's Third Ice Age: The Big Chill
Jun 16, 2023 • 28m
Episode 257: William Ah Sang and the Chinese Question of 1869
May 19, 2023 • 33m
Episode 255: The Genesis of North Charleston's Oldest and Newest Library
Apr 21, 2023 • 24m
Episode 253: Blanche Petit Barbot: A Musical Life in Charleston
Mar 24, 2023 • 21m
Episode 252: Florence O'Sullivan: South Carolina's Irish Enigma
Mar 10, 2023 • 31m
Episode 251: Margaret Daniel: Enterprising Free Woman of Color
Feb 24, 2023 • 29m
Episode 250: Charleston's First Black Detectives, 1869–1886
Feb 10, 2023 • 21m
Episode 245: The Grand Model: John Culpeper's 1672 Plan for Charles Town
Nov 18, 2022 • 33m
Episode 244: Planning Charleston in 1672: The Etiwan Removal
Nov 4, 2022 • 34m
Episode 243: Ghost Island: Desecration on the Ashley
Oct 21, 2022 • 32m
Episode 241: The Mermaid and the Hornet in the Hurricane of 1752
Sep 23, 2022 • 44m
Episode 240: The Stono Rebellion of 1739: Where Did It Begin?
Sep 9, 2022 • 29m
Episode 239: Careening across the Lowcountry in the Age of Sail
Aug 12, 2022 • 31m
Episode 238: Charleston's Second Ice Age: Rise of the Machines
Jul 29, 2022 • 26m
Episode 237: Clementia Mineral Spring: Ghost Town that Never Was
Jul 15, 2022 • 29m
Episode 236: The Charleston Tar-and-Feathers Incident of 1775
Jul 1, 2022 • 36m
Episode 231: Where Did Robert Smalls Live in 1862 Charleston?
May 6, 2022 • 28m
Episode 230: Creating a Walled City: The Charleston Enceinte of 1704
Apr 22, 2022 • 37m
Episode 228: The Other Eliza Pinckney: A Charleston Woman of Two Worlds
Mar 25, 2022 • 39m
Episode 226: The Voice of the 'Black Swan' in 1873 Charleston
Feb 25, 2022 • 31m
Episode 225: The Colonial Roots of Black Barbers and Hairdressers
Feb 11, 2022 • 26m
Episode 223: Five years of Charleston Time Machine
Jan 14, 2022 • 22m
Episode 222: A 'Banjer' on the Bay of Charleston in 1766
Dec 17, 2021 • 25m
Episode 221: Charleston’s Defensive Strategy of 1703
Dec 3, 2021 • 28m
Episode 220: The First People of the South Carolina Lowcountry
Nov 19, 2021 • 24m
Episode 219: Wielding the Sword of State in Early South Carolina
Nov 5, 2021 • 27m
Episode 218: Reviving Apparently Dead Bodies in 1790s Charleston
Oct 29, 2021 • 32m
Episode 215: The Roots of Spain’s Claim to South Carolina, 1513–1670
Sep 24, 2021 • 25m
Episode 211: Escaping Slavery: Resistance on the Run
Aug 20, 2021 • 29m
Episode 210: Charleston’s Half-Moon Battery, 1694–1768
Aug 13, 2021 • 30m
Episode 209: Maroons, Picnics, Parades, and Porgy
Jul 23, 2021 • 24m
Episode 208: South Carolina’s First Public Lending Library in 1698
Jul 17, 2021 • 26m
Episode 207: The Star-Spangled Spirit of Charleston
Jul 2, 2021 • 18m
Episode 206: The Moving Memorials to Elizabeth Jackson
Jun 26, 2021 • 29m
Episode 205: The Public Life of Charleston’s Market Hall
Jun 18, 2021 • 35m
Episode 199: The Telegraph: Charleston’s First Information Superhighway
Apr 23, 2021 • 32m
Episode 197: Granville Bastion and the Unfinished Fort of 1697
Apr 9, 2021 • 33m
Episode 196: Charleston County’s Mobile Library Service, 1931–2021
Apr 3, 2021 • 19m
Episdoe 190: Doctor Caesar and His Antidote for Poison in 1750
Feb 12, 2021 • 32m
Episode 187: Street Auctions and Slave Marts in Antebellum Charleston
Jan 22, 2021 • 33m
Episode 185: The Other New Years: Regnal, Civil, and Personal
Jan 8, 2021 • 23m
Episode 184: The Christmas Treasure of 1744
Dec 18, 2020 • 34m
Episode 181: Planning Charleston’s First “Fortress,” 1695–1696
Nov 20, 2020 • 34m
Episode 179: Charleston’s Contested Election of 1868
Nov 6, 2020 • 37m
Episode 177: The Rise of Voter Suppression in South Carolina, 1865–1896
Oct 23, 2020 • 29m
Episode 176: South Carolina’s War Against Beasts of Prey, 1693–1790
Oct 8, 2020 • 32m
Episode 174: Nicholas Trott’s Forgotten Charleston Residence
Sep 25, 2020 • 33m
Episode 173: The Myth of “Trott’s Cottage”
Sep 18, 2020 • 30m
Episode 172: The Advent of Black Suffrage in South Carolina
Sep 11, 2020 • 28m
Episode 171: A Trashy History of Charleston’s Dumps and Incinerators
Sep 4, 2020 • 34m
Episode 170: Bee Jackson’s 1926 Visit to Charleston: Behind the Scenes
Aug 14, 2020 • 31m
Episode 168: Who Were the Best “Charlestoners” in Jazz-Age Charleston?
Jul 31, 2020 • 25m
Episode 167: Bee Jackson Wanted to “Charleston” in Charleston in 1925
Jul 24, 2020 • 21m
Episode 166: Tracing the Roots of the “Charleston” Dance
Jul 17, 2020 • 18m
Episode 165: Remembering Charleston’s Liberty Tree, Part 2
Jul 3, 2020 • 34m
Episode 164: Remembering Charleston’s Liberty Tree, Part 1
Jun 26, 2020 • 32m
Episode 163: Juneteenth, Febteenth, and Emancipation Day in Charleston
Jun 19, 2020 • 24m
Episode 162: The Rise of Charleston’s Horn Work, Part 2
Jun 12, 2020 • 28m
Episode 161: The Rise of Charleston’s Horn Work, Part 1
Jun 5, 2020 • 30m
Episode 160: The Horn Work: Marion Square’s Tabby Fortress
May 29, 2020 • 32m
Episode 156: A Moderate Trot through the History of Street Speed
May 1, 2020 • 29m
Episode 155: Hemp Cultivation in Early South Carolina
Apr 24, 2020 • 31m
Episode 154: Charleston at 350: The Legacy of Founding Decisions
Apr 17, 2020 • 26m
Episdoe 153: Quarantine in Charleston Harbor, 1698–1949
Apr 9, 2020 • 27m
Episode 152: The Scandalous Black Dance of 1795, Part 2
Apr 3, 2020 • 26m
Episode 151: The Scandalous Black Dance of 1795, Part 1
Mar 27, 2020 • 18m
Episode 150: Pandemic and Panic: Influenza in 1918 Charleston
Mar 19, 2020 • 34m
Episode 149: Yamboo: An Enslaved Muslim in Early South Carolina
Mar 13, 2020 • 23m
Episode 148: His Majesty’s Warships in Charleston Harbor
Mar 6, 2020 • 26m
Episode 147: Self-Purchase: The Price of Freedom from Slavery
Feb 28, 2020 • 26m
Episode 146: Private Manumission: An Intimate Path to Freedom
Feb 21, 2020 • 31m
Episode 145: Public Manumission: A Reward for Remarkable Service
Feb 14, 2020 • 32m
Episdoe 144: Defining Charleston’s Free People of Color
Feb 7, 2020 • 19m
Episode 143: The Carolina Coffee House of London
Jan 30, 2020 • 24m
Episode 142: The Myth of the Holy City
Jan 24, 2020 • 48m
Episode 141: The South Carolina Revolution of 1719, Part 2
Jan 17, 2020 • 29m
Episode 140: The South Carolina Revolution of 1719, Part 1
Jan 10, 2020 • 23m
Episode 139: Proprietary vs. Royal Government in Colonial South Carolina
Dec 26, 2019 • 19m
Episode 138: Christmas Traditions in Early Charleston
Dec 13, 2019 • 15m
Episode 137: The Shady History of Protecting Lowcountry Trees
Dec 6, 2019 • 21m
Episode 136: The Genesis of the Harleston Neighborhood, 1672–1770
Nov 21, 2019 • 35m
Episode 124: Indigo in the Fabric of Early South Carolina
Aug 16, 2019 • 32m
Episode 123: The Evolution of Charleston’s Name
Aug 9, 2019 • 24m
Episode 122: The Charleston Baseball Riots of 1869, Part 2
Aug 2, 2019 • 43m
Episode 121: The Charleston Baseball Riots of 1869, Part 1
Jul 26, 2019 • 34m
Episode 120: The Velocipede Invasion of 1869
Jul 19, 2019 • 31m
Episode 119: Policing Charleston during Queen Anne’s War, 1702-1713
Jul 12, 2019 • 33m
Episode 118: Declaring Independence in 1776 Charleston
Jul 5, 2019 • 19m
Episode 117: Remembering the Battle of Sullivan’s Island
Jun 28, 2019 • 17m
Episode 116: The Historic Landscape of the Wando Mount Pleasant Library
Jun 14, 2019 • 27m
Episode 115: Abraham the Unstoppable, Part 8
Jun 7, 2019 • 25m
Episode 114: The Decline of Charleston’s Streetcars
May 31, 2019 • 24m
Episode 113: The Rise of Streetcars and Trolleys in Charleston
May 24, 2019 • 29m
Episode 112: The Charleston Riot of 1919
May 10, 2019 • 40m
Episode 111: Searching for the History of the Gaillard Graves
May 3, 2019 • 36m
Episode 110: Abraham the Unstoppable, Part 7
Apr 26, 2019 • 34m
Episode 109: Street Cars and Trolleys on Sullivan’s Island, 1875-1927
Apr 19, 2019 • 28m
Episode 108: Abraham the Unstoppable, Part 6
Apr 12, 2019 • 24m
Episode 107: Steamboating from Edisto to Charleston ca. 1900
Apr 5, 2019 • 31m
Episode 106: Abraham the Unstoppable, Part 5
Mar 28, 2019 • 19m
Episode 105: The Unmarked Grave of Ellen O’Donovan Rossa
Mar 15, 2019 • 34m
Episode 104: Abraham the Unstoppable, Part 4
Mar 8, 2019 • 30m
Episode 103: Abraham the Unstoppable, Part 3
Mar 1, 2019 • 28m
Episode 102: The Green Book for Charleston, 1938-1966
Feb 22, 2019 • 26m
Episode 101: Abraham The Unstoppable, Part 2
Feb 15, 2019 • 23m
Episode 97: The Story Behind Ropemaker’s Lane | Charleston Time Machine
Jan 18, 2019 • 20m
Episode 96: Charleston: The Palmetto City
Jan 11, 2019 • 17m
Episode 94: The Golden Christmas of 1852 - Charleston Time Machine
Dec 21, 2018 • 34m
Episode 93: The Pirate Executions of 1718
Dec 7, 2018 • 29m
Episode 90: The Tail Of Washington's Horse | Charleston Time Machine
Nov 9, 2018 • 30m
Episode 88: Buried Alive in Early Charleston - Charleston Time Machine
Oct 26, 2018 • 28m
Episode 83: The Heads of the Two Toms in 1745 - Charleston Time Machine
Sep 21, 2018 • 30m
Episode 79: The Great Memory Loss of 1865 - Charleston Time Machine
Aug 16, 2018 • 29m
Episode 78: Benne Seeds in the Lowcountry - Charleston Time Machine
Aug 9, 2018 • 28m
Episode 72: Too-la-Loo for the Fourth of July - Charleston Time Machine
Jun 28, 2018 • 20m
Episode 71: Carolina Day 2018 - The Charleston Time Machine
Jun 21, 2018 • 23m
Episode 63: Stealing Lord Dartmouth's Mail - The Charleston Time Machine
Apr 25, 2018 • 23m
Episode 62: Prelude To The Revolution - The Charleston Time Machine
Apr 20, 2018 • 26m
Episode 61: You've Got (Colonial) Mail - The Charleston Time Machine
Apr 12, 2018 • 25m
Episode 57: James Hoban's Charleston home - Charleston Time Machine
Mar 13, 2018 • 21m
Episode 56: Charles Town's Growing Pains - Charleston Time Machine
Mar 7, 2018 • 30m
Episode 53: Rhettsbury - Charleston Time Machine
Feb 14, 2018 • 15m
Episode 51: Gadsden's Wharf - Charleston Time Machine
Feb 1, 2018 • 28m
Episode 49: Charleston's First Ice Age - Charleston Time Machine
Jan 17, 2018 • 18m
Episode 48: Firewood History - Charleston Time Machine
Jan 11, 2018 • 18m
Episode 47: New New Year - Charleston Time Machine
Jan 4, 2018 • 20m
Episode 46: Emancipation Day: A New Year’s Tradition
Dec 25, 2017 • 16m
Episode 45: Charleston Victory Day Part 2 - Charleston Time Machine
Dec 19, 2017 • 18m
Episode 44: Charleston’s Victory Day, Part 1 - Charleston Time Machine
Dec 13, 2017 • 17m
Episode 42: Carolinas Bajan Roots, part 2 - Charleston Time Machine
Nov 29, 2017 • 18m
Episode 41: Thanksgiving In Early Charleston - Charleston Time Machine
Nov 21, 2017 • 14m
Episode 40: Carolina’s Bajan Roots, Part 1 - Charleston Time Machine
Nov 15, 2017 • 16m
Episode 39: Anson and the Spanish Entourage - Charleston Time Machine
Nov 11, 2017 • 22m
Episode 38: High And Low Batteries Part 2- Charleston Time Machine
Nov 1, 2017 • 20m
Episode 37: High And Low Batteries Part 1 - Charleston Time Machine
Oct 25, 2017 • 19m
Episode 36: Shakeout 2017 - Charleston Time Machine
Oct 18, 2017 • 11m
Episode 34: Dutch Town - Charleston Time Machine
Oct 5, 2017 • 26m
Episode 32: Mr. Duncan’s Trees - Charleston Time Machine
Sep 14, 2017 • 17m
Episode 31: The Tornado of 1811 - Charleston Time Machine
Sep 5, 2017 • 31m
Episode 30: The Road Paradox - Charleston Time Machine
Aug 29, 2017 • 19m
Episode 29: The Omnibus Revolution(s) - Charleston Time Machine
Aug 22, 2017 • 31m
Episode 28: What (and Where) is Bee’s Ferry?
Aug 15, 2017 • 28m
Episode 26: The Fall of the Urban Vultures - Charleston Time Machine
Aug 2, 2017 • 24m
Episode 25: The Rise of the Urban Vultures - Charleston Time Machine
Jul 26, 2017 • 22m
Episode 24: Huzzah For Bastille Day? - Charleston Time Machine
Jul 19, 2017 • 13m
Episode 23: How Longitude Lane Got Its Name - Charleston Time Machine
Jul 12, 2017 • 11m
Episode 20: Vendue Range: A Brief History - Charleston Time Machine
Jun 7, 2017 • 18m
Episode 11: The Language of Libations - Charleston Time Machine
Mar 30, 2017 • 25m
Episode 10: John Laurens and Hamilton, Part 3 - Charleston Time Machine
Mar 21, 2017 • 26m
Episode 9: John Laurens and Hamilton, Part 2 - Charleston Time Machine
Mar 14, 2017 • 19m
Episode 5: Charleston Alphabet Soup - Charleston Time Machine
Feb 14, 2017 • 33m
Episode 1: Podcast Premiere: Invasion 1706! - Charleston Time Machine
Jan 16, 2017 • 48m
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