This collection highlights historical City of Charleston records. The collection focus is on archival planning and zoning records including City-authored and commissioned reports, studies, published plans, and visual images. More items will be added to this collection over time.
The Charleston Library Society’s copy of the City of Charleston’s 1931 Report of the City Planning and Zoning Commission Upon a Program for the Development of a City Plan with Specific Studies of Certain Features Thereof was prepared for the city by Morris Knowles, Inc. The report contributes to the growing work surrounding the acknowledgement of race-based …
The Benjamin H. Rutledge Family Papers, 1675-1867, collection includes a bound volume kept by politician and attorney general, Charles Pinckney, 1699-1758. Following the death of his first wife, Charles Pinckney married Eliza Lucas, 1722-1793, a successful women credited with the development of the Indigo industry in South Carolina. Together, the couple had four children: Charles …
Collection of the Greenville Piedmont newspaper. This afternoon paper was published until 1995.
Collection of photographs of the Greenville Chamber of Commerce. Email scroominfo@greenvillelibrary.org if you are able to identify photographs.
Collection of photographs from the City View area including residences, roads, and businesses.
Collection of photographs from the Travelers Rest community including, residences, businesses, roads, and more.
Collection of eBooks related to local history and genealogy.
Collection of photographs of the Bon Secours St. Francis Health System.
Scrapbook of items sent from around the world to Camp Greenville. Director John B. Holmes oversaw the World Friendship Project where Rotary Clubs from around the world sent rocks, stones or other mementos to be placed in the wall of the Thomas F. Parker Lodge.