City Market - Charleston, SC
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N 32° 46.843 W 079° 55.871
17S E 600093 N 3627483
Mounted to the entrance to the market on Meeting Street, between N Marker and S Market.
Waymark Code: WMB3MY
Location: South Carolina, United States
Date Posted: 03/31/2011
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City Market
Here was erected between 1788 and 1804 the public market on land cede to the City Council by Charles Cotesworth Pinckney Et Al… Work on filling in low ground and creek completed in 1807; and six blocks of buildings constructed extending from meeting Street to the Cooper River: in order, the beef market, three buildings for vegetables, fruit and other provisions, the market for small meats, and the fish market . . . . .
Market Hall erected 1841, now houses the Confederate Museum.
Place by the city of Charleston
November 20, 1939
Marker Name: City Market
Marker Location: City
Type of Marker: Building
County: Charleston
Marker number: Not listed
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