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Sullivan's Island

Sullivan's Island

1666 –

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Sullivan's Island, S.C., and return every Saturday and Sunday! [ca. 1890?]

Broadside promoting Sullivans Island as a destination for day trips and extended visits at the New Brighton Hotel, with transport service by the Mt. Pleasant and Sullivan’s Island Ferry Company and by South Carolina Railway Company, with provided service to Charleston from Columbia, S.C., and Augusta, Ga. Although undated, this broadside features an image of the New Brighton Hotel, which was known to have been in operation by 1885 and was renamed Atlantic Beach Hotel in 1896. Copy of broadside held by SCL is missing top portion of sheet and first word of text; word Excursions supplied by cataloger.

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  • Title Sullivan's Island
  • Coverage 1666 –
  • Author
  • Keywords discovered in 1666 by Captain Robert Sandford, named for Captain Florence O’Sullivan, a former Irish soldier and one of South Carolina’s first colonists, “The Gold Bug”, quarantine station was built on Sullivan’s Island in 1707 and served as the primary line of defense against infectious disease reaching Charleston,
  • Website Name South Carolina Encyclopedia
  • Publisher University of South Carolina, Institute for Southern Studies
  • URL
  • Access Date March 29, 2024
  • Original Published Date
  • Date of Last Update August 25, 2022
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