Season’s greetings to all our Museum friends! On behalf of The Charleston Museum Board of Trustees and staff, I wish you a joyous and healthy holiday season. This is an exciting time for the Museum as we look forward to our 250th anniversary in January. Can you believe America’s First…
Read MoreThe recently completed study, “Emergence & Evolution of Colonial Carolina’s Cattle Economy,” funded by the National Science Foundation, prompted some new interpretation of the Heyward-Washington House kitchen and work yard. To share the results of analysis of the animal bones recovered at the site, we prepared new interpretive signs and…
Read MoreSideboards were a popular furniture form found in many eighteenth and nineteenth century dining rooms. This small neoclassical example was constructed by enslaved hands in the shop of prolific Charleston cabinetmaker Robert Walker (1772-1833). Executed in mahogany, satinwood, tulip poplar, and pine, the piece features six drawers arranged in two…
Read MoreTallcase clocks imported and labeled by Charleston clockmaker Joshua Lockwood, second half of the 18th century Joshua Lockwood was the son of Joshua Lockwood, Sr. (born in Worcester, England c. 1699), and Sarah Lee (born in Bridgetown Barbados c. 1722), the daughter of Worcester-born parents. Accounts of Joshua Lockwood’s place…
Read MoreExcavation of the workyard and kitchen cellar, 1970s The 1970s excavations of the Heyward-Washington House have yielded an archeological boon to the collections of The Charleston Museum. This trove of eighteenth and nineteenth century artifacts collected via Dr. Elaine Herold’s efforts include Native American pottery, varied samples of colono ware,…
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