Name/Title
Johnson Funeral Home (Mount Pleasant, S.C.)Entry/Object ID
2020.011.1Scope and Content
Research materials pertaining to the Johnson Funeral Home, located at 440 Venning Street in Mount Pleasant. The building served as both the home and business for Marguerite and Peter S. Johnson. Written and compiled by HCF 2018 summer intern Sada Stewart under the supervision of Katherine Pemberton, done in preparation for a National Register of Historic Places Registration application. The SC Department of Archives and History determined the property was ineligible since it was the residence of the owners, so the nomination was not pursued. However, the materials provide documentation and research of the funeral home business as well as of a predominantly African American residential area in Old Mount Pleasant.
Five files:
File 1: Contains draft of the National Register of Historic Places Registration Form. Includes statements pertaining to the historic and current physical appearance and condition of the property and of the significance of the property. Also includes building timeline and summary of architectural features.
File 2: Contains background information for Mount Pleasant and funeral homes from a variety of sources including news and journal articles. Also includes report "Mount Pleasant's Institutions: Proceedings of the Third Forum on the History of Mount Pleasant (ed. Amy Thompson McCandless, 1993).
File 3: Contains 440 Venning chain-of-title and a variety of deeds, maps, and plats.
File 4: Contains a variety of records pertaining to Peter Johnson's ancestry including Census records, obituaries. and newspaper articles.
File 5: Contains notes and source materials pertaining to Marguerite Johnson.Collection
Katherine Saunders Pemberton Research Projects CollectionAcquisition
Accession
2020.011Source or Donor
Katherine Saunders Pemberton Research Projects CollectionAcquisition Method
OtherLexicon
Search Terms
Mt. Pleasant, African American history / Black history, Funeral homes--South Carolina--Mount Pleasant, Undertakers and undertaking--South Carolina--Mount Pleasant, African American neighborhoods--South Carolina--Mount Pleasant, Mount Pleasant (S.C.)--HistoryLegacy Lexicon
Object Name
Research (Papers, Notes, etc.)Archive Details
Creator
Historic Charleston FoundationDate(s) of Creation
2018Archive Size/Extent
5 foldersLocation
Location
Container
KSP Box 1Shelf
Archives H-20Room
Margaretta P. Childs ArchivesBuilding
Missroon HouseCategory
PermanentDate
February 7, 2023Created By
admin@catalogit.appCreate Date
July 23, 2020Updated By
admin@catalogit.appUpdate Date
February 16, 2023