The Forgotten Public Cemeteries of Peninsular Charleston

Main Library - From the 1680s to the 1920s, deceased poor and enslaved people in urban Charleston were routinely interred within a series of publicly-owned cemeteries, the locations of which crept northward up the peninsula over successive generations. As each of these public burying grounds became filled, municipal authorities sold the land to be developed for other uses. Join CCPL's historian, Dr. Nic Butler, for an overview of these forgotten cemeteries and their enduring presence within the landscape of modern Charleston.