Calhoun Street, Lumber Mill

Description:

Photograph showing the damage from the earthquake that occurred on August 31, 1886 to a lumber mill (possibly the Berkeley County Railway and Lumber Co.) on Calhoun Street. Handwritten on reverse reads, "E end Calhoun St Cook #168" Appears to be Cook's Earthquake Views, Series No.2. "No.168, Mill, east end of Calhoun Street." The 1886 Charleston City Directory lists the Berkeley County Railway and Lumber Co. at the northeast corner of Washington and Calhoun Streets.

George LaGrange Cook was a well-known photographer in Charleston who photographed the destruction of the 1886 earthquake soon after it happened, producing a series of images titled "Cook's Earthquake Views of Charleston and Vicinity" that could be purchased as souvenirs.

• Title: Calhoun Street, Lumber Mill
• Photographer: Cook, George LaGrange, 1849-1919
• Date: 1886

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• Collection: Photograph Collection
• Object Name: Earthquake of 1886
• Object Id: MK 4094b

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• Search Terms
  • Destruction of property
  • Earthquakes
  • Lumber
  • Lumberyards
  • Mills