West Ashley

In 1670, the English ship Carolina brought colonists to the west bank of the Ashley River.

These settlers and their descendants, along with thousands of enslaved Africans, built a flourishing plantation life in what became St. Andrew's Parish. The Civil War devastated the plantation society, and it seemed that St. Andrew's Parish glory years were in the past until 1889, when construction of a new toll bridge improved access to West Ashley from the peninsula of downtown Charleston. A suburban boom that began in the 1920s expanded and revitalized the community, and many of the original families who built homes, churches, schools, and businesses still live in the community today--a testament to the continued vitality and livability of St. Andrew's Parish, West Ashley.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing (SC)
Published: 04/23/2012
ISBN: 9780738591209
Pages: 127
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.50w x 0.30d