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Aug 30, 2019 · The 1711 illustration of Charleston known as the “Crisp map” shows two “bridges” or wharves on the east side of East Bay Street: One owned by Landgrave Thomas Smith, just a bit south of the east end of Tradd Street, and one built sometime around the turn of the eighteenth century by William Rhett, located slightly north of Broad Street.
The 1711 Crisp Map shows Vanderhorst’s Creek (M), Granville Bastion (A) and Ashley Bastion (E) connected by a palisade across the narrow tributary, and Colleton Bastion (D) north of Meeting Street. The original plan for Charles Towne laid out a grid of streets and building lots on the peninsula. Salt-water creeks and marshes cut into several ...
This essay includes images of the well-known Crisp Map of 1711 and John Herbert’s lesser-known plan of the fortifications of Charleston, drafted in the autumn of 1721. These two illustrations depict slightly different and stylized versions of the enceinte surrounding the town, but they provide invaluable visual clues.
Oct 17, 2023 · The so-called “Crisp Map” of South Carolina, published in London in 1711, depicts Charleston as what we might describe as a “walled city,” outlined by a trapezoid-shaped network of walls, moats, bastions, redans, and drawbridges. This illustration has been reproduced in countless books and articles over the past three centuries ...
Aug 5, 2015 · Ashley Bastion stood due west of Granville Bastion, and may have originally been intended to form the southwest corner of a square “fortress” planned in 1696–97. Its shape is unclear in the “Crisp Map” of 1711, but in Col. John Herbert’s “Ichnography or Plann of the Fortifications of Charlestown,” drawn on 21 October 1721 (now ...
Crisp Map of Charleston in 1711, where A, E, D, C, and B are the Granville, Ashley, Colleton, Carteret, and Craven Bastions respectively, and I is Johnson's Half Moon, and G is another Half Moon. The stream to the immediate south is Vanderhorst Creek, now Water Street, with White Point to the south.
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