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35 unusual facts about Charleston


1939 Australian Grand Prix

The track utilised was three country roads which in a triangle formation took in the nearby village of Charleston.

1947 Atlantic hurricane season

In Charleston, South Carolina, the high tides caused minor beach erosion and isolated street flooding, and one person was killed there by a falling tree.

Alexandra Ripley

She attended the elite Ashley Hall, in Charleston, South Carolina, and Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York.

Allen Tate

Pope and Other Poems, which contained his most famous poem, "Ode to the Confederate Dead" (not to be confused with "Ode to the Confederate Dead at Magnolia Cemetery" by the Civil War poet Henry Timrod).

Angela Salinas

In 1988, she was transferred to serve as the executive officer for Recruiting Station Charleston, then assumed command the following year.

ANT Coos Bay

The United States Coast Guard Aids To Navigation Team, ANT Coos Bay was established in 1976 and is located near the mouth of Coos Bay in the fishing and tourist community of Charleston, Oregon, southwest of the city of Coos Bay.

Arthur Ravenel Jr. Bridge

The cover of Darius Rucker's 2010 album Charleston, SC 1966 features a picture of Rucker, a Charleston native, with the Ravenel Bridge in the background.

Charleston, Paisley

The Iain Banks novel, Espedair Street, takes its name from the street in Charleston and is partly set in the district.

Charleston, SC 1966

Jessica Phillips with Country Weekly compared it to his previous album Learn to Live, saying "Rucker created a successful blend of touching love ballads and positive up-tempo meditations on life with his 2008 foray into country music, Learn to Live, and he reprises that winning mix for his sophomore country solo release", and gave it four out of five stars.

Charleston, Tennessee

Germany based chemical company Wacker Chemie broke ground in 2011 on a new solar-grade polysilicon production facility (550-acre Greenfield site).

Charleston, West Virginia metropolitan area

===Appalachian Corridors===

Circus Flora

Circus Flora was first performed as a commissioned work for the 1986 Spoleto Festival USA, an annual celebration of the performing and visual arts in Charleston, South Carolina.

Dannion Brinkley

In May 1989 Brinkley had heart failure and went to the East Cooper Hospital in Charleston, South Carolina where he had a second near death experience.

Don Yenko

Yenko, along with his three passengers, died in March 1987 while bringing his Cessna 210 in for a landing near Charleston, West Virginia.

Dulcie Cooper

Charleston, West Virginia Gazette, New York Actress Has Part in Players' Show, Sunday, 18 October 1936, Page 2.

She had a leading part in the cast of They Took The Town, which opened in Charleston, West Virginia in October 1936.

Earl of Shaftesbury

Charleston was founded on the western bank of the Ashley in 1670 (at Charles Towne Landing), before moving across to its current peninsular location ten years later.

Evan Mack

His choir piece, Of Fire and Form, commissioned by the WV chapter of the ACDA premiered in February, 2011 at the Clay Center in Charleston, West Virginia and is currently on tour with the Marshall University Chamber Choir.

Frances Rollin Whipper

Frances Anne Rollin Whipper (1845?-1901) was born in Charleston, South Carolina, United States.

Frank Gillespie

He was admitted to the bar in 1892 and commenced practice in Charleston, West Virginia.

George M. Seignious

General Seignious died in Charleston on July 3, 2005; his funeral service took place in Summerall Chapel at The Citadel and he was buried with full military honors at the National Cemetery in Beaufort.

Henry Timrod

Timrod's friend and fellow poet, Paul Hamilton Hayne, posthumously edited and published The Poems of Henry Timrod, with more of Timrod's more famous poems in 1873, including his "Ode: Sung on the Occasion of Decorating the Graves of the Confederate Dead at Magnolia Cemetery, Charleston, S.C., 1867" and "The Cotton Boll".

Jarbidge, Nevada

From Elko, the easiest access is by proceeding 55 miles north along Nevada State Route 225, then 21 miles east along Elko County Road 746, the North Fork-Charleston Road (signed for Charleston and Jarbidge), and finally 28 miles north along Elko County Road 748, the Jarbidge-Charleston Road.

Joseph J. Russell

Born near Charleston, Mississippi County, Missouri, Russell attended the public schools and Charleston Academy.

Kristen Ruhlin

She is married to her high school sweetheart Robert Ruhlin who are both from Charleston, West Virginia.

Mark Catesby

Catesby settled in Charlestown, and traveled to other parts of eastern North America and the West Indies, collecting plants and animals.

Oblivion Beckons

Oblivion Beckons is the third studio album by Charleston heavy metal band Byzantine.

Ode to the Confederate Dead

However, unlike the "Ode" to the Conferate Dead written by the 19th-century American poet Henry Timrod, Tate's "Ode" is not a straightforward ode.

Steven Metz

Steven Kent Metz (born June 30, 1956 in Charleston, West Virginia) is an American author, Director of Research, and Research Professor of National Security Affairs at the U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute (SSI) where he specializes in insurgency and counterinsurgency, American defense policy, strategic theory, the African security environment, and future warfare.

Terence M. O'Sullivan

As head of the training fund, O'Sullivan joined LIUNA Local 1353 in Charleston, West Virginia.

Terry Timmons

She was born in Cleveland, Ohio, shortly after her parents and brothers had moved from Charleston, West Virginia.

Theodore Dehon

After paying a visit to South Carolina he was offered positions in Charleston, but demurred until 1810, when he accepted a position as rector of St. Michael's Church, Charleston.

Washington Michael Jacobs

Both of his parents were natives of South Carolina and his mother was a native of Charleston.

West Virginia University Mountaineer Marching Band

In 2008 the band performed at the inauguration of West Virginia Governor Joe Manchin in Charleston.

Williams Middleton

He is best known for his work restoring the Middleton family seat, Middleton Place, outside Charleston, South Carolina following the Civil War.


130th Airlift Wing

On June 13, 2005, members of the BRAC commission came to Charleston to evaluate the base and talk to General Tackett, Governor Joe Manchin, Senator Robert Byrd, Congresswoman Shelley Moore Capito and Col. Bill Peters, Jr, former commander of the 130th and chair for Keep 'Em Flying.

2013–14 College of Charleston Cougars men's basketball team

The 2013–14 College of Charleston Cougars men's basketball team represents the College of Charleston during the 2013–14 NCAA Division I men's basketball season.

Anne Charleston

In late 2006 Charleston joined the cast of Emmerdale, originating the character of Lily Butterfield, the estranged sister of Edna Birch (Shirley Stelfox) who arrives to attend her great niece Eve's wedding blessing.

Augustine Francis Hewit

He then became a teacher in a collegiate institute founded by Bishop England at Charleston, and assisted Bishop Reynolds in the compilation of Bishop England's works for publication.

Battle of Collierville

The Memphis & Charleston Railroad remained open to Tuscumbia, Alabama, for Union troop movements.

Battle of Fort Pulaski

In December, Lee reasoned since the Federals had sunk a Stone Fleet in the Charleston Harbor, they did not intend to use it.

Blaine Island

Blaine Island serves as the South Charleston Manufacturing Site for the Union Carbide Corporation, a subsidiary of the Dow Chemical Company.

Burt-Stark Mansion

A banker from Charleston, South Carolina, Andrew Simonds, bought it from Hoyt, and in 1862 sold it to Armistead Burt, who owned it when Jefferson Davis used the building.

Calhoun, Tennessee

Calhoun is centered around the junction of U.S. Route 11, which connects the town to Athens to the north and Charleston and Cleveland to the south, and State Route 163 (Bowater Road), which connects Calhoun to U.S. Route 411 in Delano to the east and Interstate 75 and Meigs County to the west.

Carolina Rifles Armory

, Charleston, South Carolina, was a late 19th-century headquarters for a semi-private military group, but today only the façade remains, facing an annex for the Charleston Library Society.

Caustic Eye Productions

Caustic Eye Productions is a small Charleston, West Virginia based record label and promotions company that was started in August of 2001 by Rod Lanham.

Charleston Charlies

This club - Charleston's second Triple-A franchise - stayed only those few months and relocated to Atlanta, Georgia, for the 1962 season to become the Atlanta Crackers.

Charleston School of Law

In December 2007, Andrew "Andy" L. Abrams, a professor at the school and a former provost for the College of Charleston, was named as the school's interim dean.

Charleston Tea Plantation

Since Bigelow bought the Charleston Tea Plantation, they have been working on updating the machinery, the process, and expanding the grounds as well as production.

Chase Page

Page attended Summerville High School in Summerville, South Carolina during his senior season after transferring from Wando High School in Charleston and Tuckahoe Middle School in Richmond, Virginia.

Fernando Rivas

He was on the staff of the Fine Arts department at Porter-Gaud School in Charleston until 2009 as Jazz Band Director and has also collaborated with the Charleston Symphony Orchestra as arranger and pianist.

Franklin J. Moses, Sr.

Moses was born in Charleston to Major Myer Moses and Esther (Hetty) Phillips, who was one of 22 children of Jonas Phillips.

Georgiana, Alabama

SS Georgiana, Confederate cruiser wrecked March 19, 1863, while attempting to run the U.S. Navy's blockade at Charleston, South Carolina

Gibbes Museum of Art

The museum's collections include the work of numerous artists with connections to Charleston; among them are Henrietta Johnston, Mary Roberts, Charles Fraser, and Jeremiah Theus.

Immortal Six Hundred

In 1864, the Confederate Army imprisoned 50 Union Army officers as human shields against federal artillery in the city of Charleston, South Carolina, in an attempt to stop Union artillery from firing upon civilians in the city.

Isaac E. Holmes

Born in Charleston, South Carolina, Holmes attended the common schools, received private tuition, and graduated from Yale College in 1815.

J. G. M. Ramsey

As early as 1825, Ramsey had proposed connecting Knoxville with the Atlantic Coast via railroad, which would have given the region's farmers better access to markets in Charleston.

J. Morgan Puett

Her work has been exhibited at the Fabric Workshop and Museum of Philadelphia, Wave Hill (Bronx, New York); Spoleto USA in Charleston; SC, the Tate, the Serpentine Gallery and Victoria and Albert Museum in London, and MASS MoCA in North Adams, Massachusetts.

Jennifer Ferrin

Upon her graduation from high school, Ferrin attended the College of Charleston in Charleston, South Carolina and the North Carolina School of the Arts in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, where she graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in drama.

John Thomas Copenhaver Jr.

He was in private practice in Charleston, West Virginia from 1951 to 1958, and a referee in bankruptcy, Southern District of West Virginia from 1958 to 1973.

Josephine Pinckney

Both organizations met for the first time at Pinckney's home at 21 King St. in Charleston.

Julius Blank

" Blank spoke of "those years with 'a kind of electricity in the air, where everything was happening fast and all at once.'" In 2011, he lived in a retirement center across the street from the old Fairchild headquarters at 844 Charleston Rd. in Palo Alto, where he used to have his office and now a California Historical Landmark.

Lakeview College of Nursing

An affiliation with the Illinois Teacher's College in Charleston (now Eastern Illinois University) provided additional on-campus instruction.

Mount Charleston

The state of Nevada issues license plates with the caption "Mt. Charleston" and an image of the peak in the background.

New Madrid Seismic Zone

The quake damaged virtually all buildings in Charleston, creating sand volcanoes by the city, cracked a pier on the Cairo Rail Bridge and toppled chimneys in St. Louis, Missouri, Memphis, Tennessee, Gadsden, Alabama and Evansville, Indiana.

Nick Theodore

At the conclusion of Campbell's two terms in office, Theodore ran for Governor in 1994, defeating Charleston Mayor Joseph P. Riley, Jr. to secure the Democratic nomination.

Paul Gelegotis Bridge

The Paul Gelegotis Bridge, also known as the Stono Bridge, is located in Charleston, South Carolina, USA; it connects James Island and Johns Island on SC 700.

Paul W. Whear

His works have been performed by leading orchestras, such as the London Symphony Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra, Cleveland Philharmonic, Indianapolis Symphony, Rochester Civic Orchestra, Omaha Symphony, Lincoln Symphony, Charleston Symphony, the U.S. Navy Band and the Band of the Coldstream Guards, London.

Pedro Lobo

In 2010, the Art Institute of Charleston partnered with the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art at the College of Charleston and the City of Charleston Office of Cultural Affairs to bring Lobo to Charleston, South Carolina as their first international artist in residence.

Siege artillery in the American Civil War

The Federal forces at Charleston used two British 5-inch Whitworth muzzleloading rifles that had been captured aboard a blockade runner.

South Carolina Highway 700

SC 700 connects Charleston with James Island, Johns Island, and Wadmalaw Island in southwestern Charleston County.

The National Crittenton Foundation

The foundation is affiliated with 22 member agencies operating across the country in urban and rural areas, including Baltimore; Boston; Charleston, South Carolina; Denver, Colorado; Kansas City, Missouri; Knoxville, Tennessee; Orange County, California and Los Angeles, California; Peoria, Illinois; Philadelphia; Phoenix, Arizona, San Francisco, California; Sioux City, Iowa; Washington, D.C. and Wheeling, West Virginia.

Tim Battersby

at The White House 6 times, as well as The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, The Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center,The Filene Center at Wolf Trap, The Savannah Music Festival, and Charleston's Piccolo Spoleto Festival.

Tympanonesiotes

The only known specimen (USNM 16809), a distal right tarsometatarsus end, was found in the Cooper River near Drum Island at Charleston, South Carolina (USA).

Walden Pond

In his journal, Thoreau philosophized upon the wintry sight of Tudor's ice harvesters: "The sweltering inhabitants of Charleston and New Orleans, of Madras and Bombay and Calcutta, drink at my well ... The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges."

West Fraser

The realistic, detailed marine compositions from this period resulted in early critical recognition, with a 1984 two-man show at the Grand Central Art Galleries in New York City, and his first one-man exhibition at the Gibbes Museum of Art in Charleston in 1986 through early 1987.

West Virginia Air National Guard

On June 13, 2005, members of the BRAC commission came to Charleston to evaluate the base and talk to General Tackett, Governor Joe Manchin, Senator Robert Byrd, Congresswoman Shelley Moore Capito and Col. Bill Peters, Jr., former commander of the 130th and chair for Keep 'Em Flying.

WV Junior College

The College is located in downtown Charleston at 1000 Virginia Street and is accredited by the Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools to award diplomas and associate degrees in Business Administration, Medical Assisting, Legal Office Assisting and Computer Technology.