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The ship ALBERMARLE and PORT ROYAL are lost during a stormy stormy Atlantic crossing to Carolina, a planned planting and trading province in America. |
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| 1670/00/00 |
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As early as 1670, Governor William Sayle has set aside land for a new town on Oyster Point, between the Ashley and Wandoo (Cooper) River. |
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| 1670/04/00 |
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The CAROLINA anchors off the Carolina coast where the settlers debate whether to plant at Port Royal or Kayawah. "the Gouernor adhearing for Kayawah and most of us ... cryed out for Kayawah yet some dissented..." |
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| 1670/04/23 |
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The sloop THE THREE BROTHERS arrives from Virginia, and along with the colonist on the CAROLINA, they establish a settlement, "Albemarle poynt at Kyawaw", 20 leagues to the Northward of Port Royal. |
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| 1670/09/00 |
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The Country proves good beyond expectation and abounds in all things as good Oake, Ash, Deare Turkies, partridges rabbitts turtle and fish the land produceth anyithing that is putt in it... Florence O'Sullivan to Lord Ashley |
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| 1670/11/00 |
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The Albemarle settlers are told that their town is to be called Charles Town. |
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| 1671/00/00 |
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Friendly Indians help, including bring food almost daily, as the Barbados colonists' were slow to produce food. |
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| 1672/07/12 |
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Camunas, a Spanish spy, that the settlement has a fort "of wood made into a sort of wall of heavy logs ... with 28 pieces of artillery of iron and bronze at the land side of the village and about ninety houses in the village, without any formal streets." |
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| 1675/00/00 |
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Colonist try growing a variety of plants at Charles Town, including vineyards and olive groves. The Vineyards will produce into the 1770s, while a severe frost will kill most of the olives trees in 1837. |
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| 1679/00/00 |
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The Charles Town settlement moves from Albemarle Point to Oyster Point on the eastside of the Ashley River. |
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| 1695/00/00 |
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Between 1694 and 1697, 760 acres of land known as "Old Town Plantation" are granted to James Le Sade. |
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| 1775/00/00 |
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The Horry-Lucas House (lost) is built c 1775. |
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| 1835/00/00 |
Jonathan Lucas |
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Jonathan Lucas buys the Old Town sea-island cotton plantation (lost). The Lucas family primarily uses the estate for recreation. The Legare Waring House was built as the overseer's dwelling. |
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| 1878/00/00 |
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Julia Thomas Graves gives Old Town plantation to her daughter Katherine Malcomson Graves, wife of Edward T Legare. |
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| 1950/00/00 |
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In the late 1940s, Ferdinanda Backer and Dr Joseph I Waring, remodel the old overseer's house in the Colonial Revival style. They will plant 80 acres of gardens that include the live-oak ally, thousands of azaleas and camellias and the freshwater lagoons. |
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| 1970/00/00 |
South Carolina Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism |
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Charles Towne Landing opens as a South Carolina State Park. |
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