Three photographs, early 20th century, each with handwritten descriptions on back:
a: Tree-lined dirt road.
b: View of tall trees with a boy at the top of one.
c: Landscape with trees. Buildings barely visible in background.
Collection
HCF Image Collection
Acquisition
Accession
2012.003.
Source or Donor
New Photos Catalog Records (2012)
Acquisition Method
Found in Collection
Made/Created
Time Period
20th Century
Inscription/Signature/Marks
Type
Inscription
Location
back of photograph (a)
Transcription
Summerville Road.
Notes
Today, Highway 61 (Ashley River Road).
Type
Inscription
Location
back of photograph (b)
Transcription
Negro boy gathering mistletoe.
Type
Inscription
Location
back of photograph (c)
Transcription
Indian Hill, where the first white people landed in Charleston by fighting and whipping the Indians.
Lexicon
Nomenclature 4.0
Nomenclature Primary Object Term
Photograph
Nomenclature Sub-Class
Graphic Documents
Nomenclature Class
Documentary Objects
Nomenclature Category
Category 08: Communication Objects
LOC Thesaurus for Graphic Materials
Streets, Trees, Landscape photographs, Mistletoe
Search Terms
Rural roads, Ashley River Region (S.C.)
Dimensions
Height
3-1/2 in
Width
6 in
Location
Location
Container
PhotoBox 15
Shelf
AV Materials
Room
Margaretta P. Childs Archives
Building
Missroon House
Category
Permanent
Date
February 7, 2023
Provenance
Notes
Found in a box of miscellaneous unidentified photographs.
Research Notes
Notes
Excerpt, Post & Courier, Feb. 27, 2012, by Bo Petersen, "Indian Hill's Truth":
The hill is a sand bluff along the Ashley River on The Citadel military college campus, the rise where the water tower stands today. It climbs some 15 feet from the marshes, making it the highest natural ground on the Charleston peninsula. ... The rise has been called Indian Hill for as long as anyone remembers, maybe because its camel-hump shape resembles a native ceremonial mound. The "Indian" legend of its origin was widely accepted for generations, until archaeologists in the 1970s excavated and disproved it. They did find a brick wall, a clay pipe, a pewter spoon, a shutter pin and -- incongruously -- native American pottery fragments. They concluded the hill was the site or very near the site of the colonial Gibbs plantation house, a trading family that likely did business with native tribes. ... Almost directly across the Ashley from the hill is Charles Towne Landing, the original city site and the spot where a ferry ran to the Gibbs Plantation and the Lowndes Grove Plantation nearby. (http://www.postandcourier.com/article/20120227/PC1602/302279928)
