Properties in the Right-of-Way

Description

B&W photographs of buildings and other properties located in Charleston County that were destroyed, relocated, or otherwise modified because they were in the right-of-way of where roads were being constructed or widened. Building and dwelling types include houses, apartment buildings, freedman's cottages, mobile homes, commercial and industrial buildings, churches, schools, gas stations, restaurants, grocery stores and corner markets, garages, sheds, outhouses, and other outbuildings.

Roads: * I-26, Route 171 (Folly Road/St. Andrews Boulevard), Route 17 (Savannah Highway), State Road 31 (Reynolds Avenue), and State Road 13 (Remount Road).

Stamped on back of photos is docket number, route number, county, property owner, tract number, station, and date; information filled in by hand. See Notes for explanation of surveyor measurements regarding "station."

Photographs are grouped by docket number and within those groupings, photos of neighboring properties are (mostly) consecutive.

See the entire collection on the Lowcountry Digital Library at http://lcdl.library.cofc.edu/content/scdot-photographs-properties-right-way.