Cabin Wheel Club, Shell Road

Description:

Black and white photograph of the fork in the road at the end of what was then called Shell Road. This is now Savannah Highway (or US Highway 17) and was also referred to as the Atlantic Coastal Highway. Caption with negative reads, "End of Shell Road - St. Andrew's." A sign with names can be seen nailed to the tree in the center of the fork. This road was constructed in the early 1800s by the Charleston Bridge Company and began from St. Andrew's Parish continuing all the way north to Rantowles Creek. Sams took this image during a bicycle outing with the Cabin Wheel Club. Printed from a glass plate negative held in the Museum's collection.

The Cabin Wheel Club was made up of members who would cycle from the peninsula over the "New Bridge" (now the Ashley River Bridge) to the country in St. Andrew's Parish (now West Ashley). First called the "Charleston Riding Club" it was advertised in the April 20, 1896 News & Courier edition as "A Picnic on Wheels." The next year, it was referred to as the "Wheelman Club...A Clubhouse for Cyclists" eventually earning the name the "Cabin Wheel Club."

• Title: Cabin Wheel Club, Shell Road
• Photographer: Sams, Franklin Frost (Dr.), 1867-1937
• Date: c.1914

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• Collection: Photograph Collection
• Object Name: Franklin Frost Sams Photographs
• Object Id: MK 7610

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