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A Charleston building with deep roots in Black history is slated for demolition and the move is drawing criticism from ...
The site where the graves were discovered was known as Potter's Field. For decades beginning in 1870, this place was used as a burial ground for people from Snake Hill, a complex of institutions ...
Ultimately, the upgrades also will help in destigmatizing the island – changing the negative narrative that often is associated with a potter’s field. “I think the more people you get out here, I ...
A coalition of organizations is pushing back against an upcoming College of Charleston housing project and demanding immediate community engagement.
The group took Craven a half mile away from Potter’s Field, where he was hanged and shot hundreds of times. Craven claimed his innocence up until his death, and no member of the mob was ever ...
While being held at the county jail on charges of murdering a Confederate veteran and an unrelated robbery, a mob of hundreds of men broke in and took him to Potter’s Field half a mile away.