East Battery

Description:

Black and white photograph of East Battery looking north towards East Bay Street before Murray Boulevard. A horse and carriage can be seen in front of the John Ravenel House (5 East Battery). Paine shot the image from the sea wall at White Point Garden with the oyster shell path, that once surrounded the park, visible to the left.

In the mid-1700s, this area was made of large earthenworks of mud and sand in which wooden platforms were laid to support cannons. During the War of 1812, cannons were positioned all along this area and is thought to be the reason why it was named "East Battery."

• Title: East Battery
• Photographer: Paine, Morton Brailsford, 1883-1940
• Date: December 1900

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• Collection: Photograph Collection
• Object Name: Morton Brailsford Paine Photographs
• Object Id: MK 1400

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  • Parks
  • Sea walls