CHARLESTON-SOUTH CHARLESTON FIRE STATION MOVE: ; Jones: Fire chief target of bugging at Aug. 9 meeting; Another city official says CFD employee planted device for self-serving reasonsTravis Crum
It was not until 1885 when City Council purchased the first fire equipment – a used Steamer from Charleston, that the first fire department, composed of all volunteers, was formed. In 1910 The City hired its first paid Fire Chief and three part-time drivers. In 1915 the department was reo...
Charleston was the home of the Friendly Society for the Mutual Ensuring of Houses Against Fire, America’s first fire insurance company. The company didn’t last long. It went belly-up when the great fire of 1740 destroyed more than 300 buildings. America’s first Chamber of Commerce was or...
In South Carolina, where the governor regularly executed state papers between entertainments in one of Charleston’s finer whorehouses, anything was possible. The new results threw the electoral votes of those states to Hayes, giving him a margin of one vote: 185 to 184. When the Electoral Co...
This year, thanks to Sacramento Republic’s dream run, is just the third time in the last quarter century that a second-division side has reached the Final (Rhinos in 1996 and 1999 + Charleston Battery in 2008). All of that makes the Republic’s 2022 run all the more rema...
which later became the modern "curfew". In the early American colonies homes had no real fireplaces so a fire was built in the center of the room. In order to make sure a fire did not get out of control during the night it was required that, by an agreed upon time, all fires would...
Birthdate of Cracow native and hold of Ph.D from the University of Heidelberg Joseph Hirsch Dunner, an expert on the teachings of Abraham ibnEzra,the Chief Rabbi of North Hollan and the recipient of the Order of the Lion Netherlands. ...
the Charleston Gazette-Mail wrote in a 2016 article, it's all "a riot of weird." And is it just a coincidence that is located across the street from Grave Creek? If you dare to become one of the "visiting souls" who cross over to find out, note that the tour season only runs on...
(at least according to The Times Leader in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania), the historical society's archives show that the ruins in the area are from structures washed away in a 1955 flood, like the former Seven Pines Lodge, a powerhouse, and a sanitarium destroyed by fire in 1911 (...
(we’re talking 6,700 feet above sea level here) away from the city lights, make the short drive and escape to theRetreat on Charleston Peak, an elegant, rustic lodge where you can gaze at the stars, sip a drink by the fire, and enjoy panoramic views of the surrounding canyons and ...