The Atlantic House Restaurant in 1988, the year before it was destroyed by Hurricane Hugo Taylor Fishing Pier, which opened on July 4, 1995, it will remain open to the public through the summer season.Ī car parked on the beach gets caught in the incoming tide, circa 1950. While there are plans to replace the 1,045-foot Edwin S. The last trip of a mule-drawn trolley in 1898

Soldiers stationed at Fort Moultrie, circa 1940 Houses near Station 17 and Fort Moultrie in 1930. The Cove Inlet trolley bridge between the Old Village in Mount Pleasant and Station 9 on the island Marguerite Strickland Stith with son Paul, circa 1950 Ilderton (at far right) with Gloria Rochelle, Mary Montgomery, and Carey Ilderton Although the power has been lowered to 1.2 million candelas, it can still be seen 27 miles out at sea. There, a trolley bridge across Cove Inlet once connected summer residents to the island.ĭedicated on June 15, 1962, the 140-foot-tall Charleston Light on Sullivan’s Island originally put out 28 million candelas (candlepower) and was one of the most powerful in the Western Hemisphere. The southern tip of Sullivan’s near Fort Moultrie curves to the Intracoastal Waterway, with Mount Pleasant’s Old Village on the far side. The Dance Pavilion and Seashore Hotel, in place by the 1900s, attracted visitors from up and down the East Coast The amusement park near the Dance Pavilion featured a novel invention first unveiled in 1893 at the Chicago World’s Fair-the Ferris wheel Marguerite Strickland Stith (center) with sister Rosie and a friend walking on Folly Beach, circa 1950 Activity on the Isle of Palms shore centered around three beachfront pavilions, anchored by the fishing pier-the longest in the Carolinas in the 1950s.įront Beach Isle of Palms and the pier in 2017

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