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Charleston in 1801
Charleston, South Carolina
Firsts for the Year
1801
By: Ill. Brother McDonald "Don" Burbidge, 33
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Listed below are some facts concerning Charleston for the year of
1801:
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In the year of 1801 Charleston was known as "The Antebellum
City" because of the rapid expansion of rice and cotton growing
along with the fabulous prices that these Commodities brought
to the planter.
•
The University of South Carolina was founded in Columbia
(December 19).
(I included this even thou it does not have anything to do with
Charleston. however, USC is well known to everyone.)
•
March 17, The Hibernian Society was organized.
•
June 01, 1801- the temperature for the day was as follows:
This is the information on what the day was like after the Supreme
Council was established in Charleston.
Thermo Reading Barometer
Hydro Dump Prevailing Winds
8am 3pm 10pm
8am 3pm 10pm
77
o
83
o
79
o
68
30
E Cloudy
Clear
•
December 19, Two state banks were chartered, The Bank of
South Carolina and the State Bank.
•
December 19, The state appropriated $50,000 to pay Phineas
Miller and Eli Whitney For the right of S.C. planters to use their
machine called "a saw gin, for cleaning the staple of cotton from
the seed." After some difficulties the inventor collected.
References:
Charleston!
The History of a Southern City
By: Walter J. Fraser, Jr.
A South Carolina Chronology 1497-1970
By: George C. Rogers, Jr.
The Gazette Newspaper
Dated: July , 1801
People and Professions of Charleston, South Carolina, 1782-1802
By: James W. Hagy
Chronology and Documentary
Handbook of the State of
South Carolina
By: Robert I. Vexler (State Editor)
William F. Swindler (Series Editor)
Dated: 1978
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The professions most often listed are as follows:
Merchants, grocer, carpenter, shop keeper, planter, mariner,
tailors, physician, attorney, and boarding house.
Following is a partial list of the number of persons for each
professional status:
Profession
Total Number
Account
1
Apothecary
3
Auctioneer
6
Baptist
1
Barber
7
Blacksmith
13
Block Maker
9
Boarding House
32
Boarding School
1
Book Shop
1
Book Keeper
3
Book Seller
2
Boot Maker
1
Brass Founder
1
Brewer
1
Brick Layer
19
Brick Maker
1
British Consul
1
Broker
6
Butcher
32
Cabinet Maker
24
Cake Shop
1
Captain
2
Dancing Master
3
Dentist
3
Distiller
4
Druggist
6 (Dalcho was
one of them)
Governor
1
Hotel
1
Justice of the Peace
3
Livery Stables
2
Mariner
55
Merchants
274
Physicians
40 (Auld and
Dalcho were
physicians)
Planters
57
Printers
9
Schools
2
School Master
6
School Mistress
12
Sheriff
1
Shoe Maker
16
Spanish Consul
1
Stamping Officer
1
Widow
109
Women constituted 309 of the total entries or 16%. Of those
only 103 have professions listed, the greatest number being shop
owners (21%), boarding houses (
16%), and teaching (13%).
As an interesting note the following appears:
DALCHO & AULD APOTHECARIES, 132 EAST BAY
A lot has been written about these two working together but
the location at which they worked together had never been mention
until now.