1872 Birdseye View of Charleston Charles Town The descendants of the Drayton

The descendants of the Drayton still own the property today

Both the Spanish and the French attempted settlements along the Carolina coast in the 1500s and1600s

It was completed under the direction of Professor Alexander Dallas Bache

as well as a mapmaker for the Union Army

Fort Wagner was the target of the famous Union charge by the 54th Massachusetts

1872 Birdseye View of Charleston Charles Town The descendants of the DraytonThis 1872 Birdseye View map of Charleston shows a city much changed from its pre war vitality. In 1865, at the end of the Civil War, Charleston was a city in ruins. It had vacant buildings and damaged homes, wharves that were decayed and rotten, deserted warehouses, overgrown gardens, a high number of orphans and widows, poverty, and little cultural identity. The Civil War had taken its toll on South Carolina, particularly Charleston. South Carolinas