Johns Island Airport: Site of Fort Trenholm and Bosomworth Plantation Ruins

Archive

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Historic Charleston Foundation

Name/Title

Johns Island Airport: Site of Fort Trenholm and Bosomworth Plantation Ruins

Entry/Object ID

2020.011.3

Scope and Content

In 1997, Katherine Saunders Pemberton (HCF) was contacted by a Johns Island resident who informed her that there was bulldozing in progress at Johns Island's Charleston Executive Airport as ordered by the FAA for runway clearance of tree lines. The bulldozers were "bashing into" the Civil War bastioned earth fortification Fort Trenholm, a historical site listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and threatened to impact the site of the Bosomworth Plantation ruins that included the remains of a colonial tabby house. HCF intervened under the leadership of Ms. Pemberton, initiating a Section 106 review by the State Historic Preservation Office and the execution of a Memorandum of Agreement requiring the FAA to survey the area and study Fort Trenholm. The resulting report is entitled "Mitigation Report Concerning Part of Fort Trenholm and Other Sites for the Far Part 77 Imaginary Surfaces Obstruction Clearance Project at Charleston Executive Airport" (2001). Three files: File 1: Contains documentation of related to the creation of the Memorandum of Agreement including notes, correspondence, Memorandum of Agreement (draft), newspaper articles, and South Carolina Statewide Survey Form for Bosomworth Plantation Ruins. File 2: Contains two copies of plat "Obstruction Clearing and Fencing, Charleston Executive Airport: General Layout & Phasing" (Delta Airport Consultants, Inc., May 1997). File 3: One set of color photographs; one set of B&W photographs; B&W 35mm negatives.

Collection

Katherine Saunders Pemberton Research Projects Collection

Acquisition

Accession

2020.011

Source or Donor

Katherine Saunders Pemberton Research Projects Collection

Acquisition Method

Other

Lexicon

Search Terms

Charleston Executive Airport (Charleston County, S.C.), Johns Island (S.C.)--Archaeological sites, Plantations--South Carolina--Johns Island, Forts and fortifications--South Carolina--Johns Island

Legacy Lexicon

Object Name

Research (Papers, Notes, etc.)

Archive Details

Creator

Historic Charleston Foundation

Archive Size/Extent

3 Folders (documentation, photographs, plats)

Archive Notes

Date(s) Created: 1997-1998 Date(s): 1997-1998

Location

Location

Container

KSP Box 1

Shelf

Archives H-20

Room

Margaretta P. Childs Archives

Building

Missroon House

Category

Permanent

Date

February 7, 2023

Relationships

Related Entries

Notes

2011.002.107

General Notes

Note

Notes: Photographs found in two envelopes, one labeled Johns Island Airport Property and one unlabeled but dated by film processor 7/29/1998. None are labeled. Sleeved in original order. B&W 35mm negatives found in envelope with Johns Island Airport Property photographs.

Created By

admin@catalogit.app

Create Date

August 5, 2020

Updated By

kemmons

Update Date

August 11, 2021