Old Brunswick City Hall

     This building is located at 1229 Gloucester, Brunswick Georgia.  Construction began in 1886.  Cost was $33,000. The building  was based on a design of Alfred Eichberg.  The style.is Richardson Romanesque.  The building was restored in 20004.

Charleston County Courthouse

     The building was built in the ruins of the Charleston State House from 1790 to.1792.  The Architect was James Hobar.  The style is neoclassical.  The building has 3 floors

Historic Plaqie

     This house is located at 1709 Reynolds St. Brunswick, Georgia.  It was built in 1891 for Timothy Mahoney who worked with the railroad.  The architect was J.A. Woods  The building style is Carpenter Gothic.

Mahoney McGarvey

Fort Sumter

     Fort Sumter a sea fort built on an artificial island.  It is located near Charleston, South Carolina.

Fort Sumter

     Fort Sumter was built after British forces captured and occupied Washington during the War of 1812.  It was named after a military officer Thomas Sumter.

     The artificial island was originally a sand bar.  The fort  was never built as planned.  In 1827, army engineers concluded.that the site was suitable as planned.

     70,000 tons of granite were transported from New England to build up the artificial island. By 1834 a lumber foundation  that was several feet beneath the water was built.

     The walls of the fort consisted of brick 5 feet thick and 50 feet over the low tide mark.

Fort Sumter

Plaque Fort Sumter

Sidney Lanier Bridge

     The current Sidney Lanier Bridge was opened in 2003.  It is a cable stayed bridge that crosses the Brunswick River in Brunswick, Georgia.  It carries 4 lanes of traffic on US 17.

     The prior bridge at this site was a vertical lift bridge built in 1956.  It was damaged in 2 separate boat versus bridges

 collisions.

Sidney Lanier Bridge

     The current bridge is the longest spanning bridge in Georgia. It is 480 feet tall. Its total length is 7, 779 feet.  The width is 79.5 feet.  The bridge was named for Sidney Lanier, a Georgian Poet

Seaboard Airline Railroad Station Charlotte, North Carolina

     This Railroad Station is located at 100 Tyson Street Charlotte, North Carolina.  It was built in 1896.  The architect was Charles Christian Hook.  It was built for the Seaboard Airline Railroad.

     The station was a red and pink stucco building. The central section is two stories. There is a one story extension. There is a wide umbrella shed which extends 300 feet along the railroad tracks. It is supported by 15 cast iron columns.

     Passenger service ended by the train line 11/3/1958.  The station building subsequently housed the yard offices of the Seaboard Airline Railroad, Seaboard Coast Line Railroad, the Seaboard System Railroad and the CSX Transportation  Railroad.

     The CSX Raiload vacated the station building on  January, 1987.  They donated the station and leased the property to the Charlotte Mecklenburg Historic Landmark Commission on October, 1987.  The station building and adjacent property were offered for sale in 1990.  The building was involved in a fire in January, 1991.

     Over the subsequent years the station deteriorated, was vandalized, and was used by the homeless..

    In 1993, A coalition of 4 churches along with local businesses and political leaders purchased the train station and renovated it. They spent $85,000 on the project. It opened on.December 11,1994 as the Charlotte Center for Urban Minority.  They operated a soup kitchen and operated a health center for the homeless.

     In March, 2006, the soup kitchen and administrative offices relocated to a nearby building.   The former train.station became an.art center and classrooms.

     The station was renovated in July, 2017.
     

Old Slave Market

    The Old Slave Market is a building located at 6 Chalmers Street.,Charleston, S.C. It once housed an antebellum slave auction market. It is thought to be the last slave auction facility in South Carolina.  It was originally a part of a larger facility known as Ryan Slave Mart.

     It was built in 1859.  The building style was Gothic Revival Romanesque. It originally measured 44 feet by 20 feet.  The front facade had 20 feet octagonal pillars at each end.  There was an elliptical arch.

     After the facility closed it was converted into a tenement building.  A second floor was added.  In the 1920’s a car dealer show room  operated in the building