Cultural Resources Survey of the South Rhett Tract

Author(s): Charles F. Phillips Jr.; Allison Wind

Editor(s): Ed Salo; Jennifer Salo

Year: 2007

Summary

"In May 2007, Brockington and Associates, Inc., conducted an intensive cultural resources

survey of the 28-acre South Rhett Tract located in North Charleston, Charleston County, South

Carolina. The project tract is bounded to the east by South Rhett Avenue, to the north by the North

Charleston Terminal Railroad Line, to the south by Noisette Creek, and to the west by a private

neighborhood. At the time of this investigation, vegetation within the tract consisted of mixed

hardwood forest, freshwater wetlands, and tidally influenced marsh. ..."

Cite this Record

Cultural Resources Survey of the South Rhett Tract. Charles F. Phillips Jr., Allison Wind, Ed Salo, Jennifer Salo. Mt. Pleasant, SC: Brockington and Associates, Inc. 2007 ( tDAR id: 391184) ; doi:10.6067/XCV8NV9KHD

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

URL: http://artsandsciences.sc.edu/sciaa/


Keywords

Culture
Historic • Pre-Contact Native American

Material
Building Materials • Ceramic • Glass • Metal

Site Name
Site No. 38CH2152

Site Type
Archaeological Feature • Artifact Scatter • Domestic Structure or Architectural Complex • Domestic Structures • Isolated Artifact

Investigation Types
Archaeological Overview • Consultation • Historic Background Research • Site Evaluation / Testing • Systematic Survey

General
Bottle Glass Fragments • Brick Fragments • Burnished Sherds • Concrete Foundation • Delft Sherds • Dikes and Dams • Iron Fragments • Ironstone sherds • Kaolin Pipe Fragments • Machine Cut Nails • Oak Grove Plantation • Plain Sherds • Porcelain Button • Residual Sherds • Westerwald ceramics

Geographic Keywords
Charleston (County) • Noisette Creek

Temporal Keywords
Post-Contact Period • Pre-Contact Period

Temporal Coverage

Calendar Date: 1750 to 1770 (Land owned by Kenneth Michie and heir)

Calendar Date: 1770 to 1770 (Land owned by Joseph Hutchins)

Calendar Date: 1770 to 1794 (Land owned by Samuel Prioleau)

Calendar Date: 1794 to 1813 (Land owned by Thomas Screven)

Calendar Date: 1813 to 1813 (Land owned by Robert E. Cochran)

Calendar Date: 1813 to 1835 (Land owned by George Chisholm)

Calendar Date: 1835 to 1836 (Land owned by James Legare and Frederick Witsell)

Calendar Date: 1836 to 1837 (Land owned by Frederick Witsell)

Calendar Date: 1837 to 1860 (Land owned by Francis Y. Porcher)

Calendar Date: 1860 to 1911 (Land owned by Paul and Joseph Noisette and heirs)

Calendar Date: 1911 to 1911 (Land owned by James Sottile )

Calendar Date: 1911 to 1912 (Land owned by George H. Moffett)

Calendar Date: 1775 to 1783 (The American Revolutionary War)

Calendar Date: 1861 to 1865 (The American Civil War)

Calendar Date: 1918 to 1918 (Atlantic Coast Line Railroad built a tram immediately to the North of the project tract)

Calendar Date: 1790 to 1790 (Plat showing large dam for the rice fields on the land tract)

Calendar Date: 1913 to 2007 (Land owned by North Charleston Corporation)

Calendar Date: 1912 to 1913 (Land owned by Charleston Improvement Co.)

Calendar Date: 1680 to 1750 (Land granted to Robert Drye and remained in the family)

Spatial Coverage

min long: -80.032; min lat: 32.599 ; max long: -79.829; max lat: 32.816 ;

Individual & Institutional Roles

Contributor(s): Ed Salo; Jennifer Salo; Charles F. Phillips Jr.; Blair Stec

Field Director(s): Gwendolyn Burns

Lab Director(s): Emily Jateff

Principal Investigator(s): Ralph Bailey

Sponsor(s): I'On Company

Prepared By(s): Brockington and Associates, Inc.

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