#charles town

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E Washington Street, Charles Town, West Virginia.

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Gibson-Todd House, Charles Town, WV.

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A 1704 map of plans for Charles Town (later renamed Charleston) in the Carolina colony.

Charles Town was once a walled fortress of a city. The only part of the original wall of the city is the Half Moon semicircle of the brick wall that is visible today in the dungeon level of the Old Exchange Building at the intersection of East Bay Street and Broad Street.

The shore line to the left on the peninsula is now known as White Point Gardens, better known at the Battery, with all the grand homes along the newer wall. This area was once known as Oyster Point and was where the people gathered and threw out their oyster shells, along with where they had public executions. For example, this is the spot where famous pirate Stede Bonnet and his crew where hanged in 1718 and their bodies thrown into the tide, where they still remain to this day. Over the many years of settling the Charleston peninsula, the area at Oyster Point was eventually filled in with dirt and sand to build a wall for protection of the homes from hurricanes, which is why it looks the way it does today.

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Railbird at the Charles Town race track

(Hank Walker. 1950)

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Bret Michaels Brings The Big Show Parti-Gras To Charles Town, WV Saturday June 24, 2023. Tickets On-sale Now!

Charles Town, WV get ready! Bret Michaels brings his record breaking Parti-Gras tour to Hollywood Casino at Charles Town Races on Saturday June 24, 2023 and tickets are on-sale now! Hurry to get yours before they are gone @ https://www.ticketmaster.com/bret-michaelsparti-gras-tour-2023-charles-town-west-virginia-06-24-2023/event/15005E38B3C744B9. This is one party you won’t want to miss!

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The reward for a pirate tour well done… sigh. Lol So I had both a busy, and wonderful weekend getting to meet Art and Claire Milne of the Port City Pyrates all the way down from New Brunswick, Canada! It was their first time ever coming by Charleston and they decided to go out of their way on their trip to come meet me and for me to give them a personal private tour of Charleston regarding pirate history. A nice, long, TEN HOUR tour, lol.  Took them by Charles Towne Landing where the original settlement was built before being relocated to its current location, and out onto the 17th century Ketch there. 

From there, to the Old Exchange & Provost Dungeon where the crew of Stede Bonnet, and later Bonnet himself would be held captive after their capture at the Cape Fear River, NC. Then onto the Powder Magazine, built in 1713 to store gunpowder (where this pic was taken). I then took them down Chalmers street and explained how the cobblestone roads were actually made of ship ballast, and explained the history of the Pink House (a tavern and brothel frequented by sailors back then). From there, to the Stede Bonnet Memorial at White Point Gardens, and across it to the actual White Point location where Stede Bonnet, his crew of 29, 19 of pirate Captain Richard Worley’s crew, and 9 other unnamed pirates in 1700 were all hanged. 

While there I went over some of the pirate ghost folklore, regarding the haunting of the Pink House, the White Point Gardens, across the harbor at Morris Island, and the buried Spanish treasure at Isle of Palms. Finally we headed to 37 Meeting Street while I discussed the history of pirate Captain George Raynor and the Red Sea Men of the Bachelor’s Delight who settled down in Charleston. Once at 37 Meeting, I went over the tales of the pirate ghost who has shown himself to many of the residents, and the antics the ghost has gotten up to; according to the local folklore.  A lot of walking, and so much talking. My voice is rather wore out after teaching pirate history all day, lol. During which I ended up bumping into a follower of mine who randomly knew who I was at Charles Towne Landing State Historic Site, Jason Robinett (the assistant park manager), and a number of enthusiastic individuals who were excited to see me out and about roaming the streets of Charles Town! Including which was a mother and her three children who were ecstatic to meet me and ask me about all the odds and ends of my outfit. Did some pics with the kids, gave them some replica doubloons and made their day.  But yeah, long weekend, but I got to hit up a number of locations I’d been meaning to get back to for pics anyways.  (Pictured is myself in the pillory at the Powder Magazine, Charleston [photography by Art Milne])

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Charles Town, West Virginia

photo: David Castenson

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