CHARLESTON, S.C. — Charleston County Public Library (CCPL) has been awarded three significant grants totaling more than $125,000 to strengthen adult literacy, expand access to healthy food, and provide emergency food assistance to residents across...
The enclave known as Butcher Town flourished around Cannon’s millpond until 1850, when the expansion of Charleston’s city limits propelled the slaughtering business northward. The migration of butchers’ pens across the Neck then triggered a...
The residents of early Charleston lived cheek-by-jowl with the animals they consumed, and routinely witnessed cattle, pigs, sheep, and goats trotting through urban streets to meet the butcher’s blade. Efforts to push this bloody business out of the...
The Charleston County Public Library is celebrating Native American Heritage Month throughout the month of November. We’re recognizing the contributions, achievements and sacrifices of Native American people, the first inhabitants of the United...
CHARLESTON, S.C. —The Charleston County Public Library (CCPL) will host the official launch of The Listening Booth: Stories of the Formerly Incarcerated and Their Families, a new multimedia installation and storytelling project that amplifies the...
In the spring of 1807, nineteen years after the initial creation of Market Street, Charleston’s municipal government faced a looming deadline to complete the proposed but long-delayed public marketplace. To avoid a second forfeiture of the...
Amidst another influx of French-speaking refugees in the spring of 1804, Charleston’s municipal authorities negotiated with property owners to resuscitate the Market Street plan scuttled more than a decade earlier. Charles Cotesworth Pinckney...
Kids and teens can enjoy free after-school snacks and meals at select library branches through the Kids Café Program! The program is in partnership with the Lowcountry Food Bank and provides access to healthy food options. The program also offers hot...
Following the conversion of the city’s new Beef Market into a dormitory in the autumn of 1793, the business of vending fresh provisions in Charleston meandered across the urban landscape for more than a decade. The older marketplaces in Tradd...
For the second consecutive year, CCPL is working with Charleston County’s Department of Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse Services (The Charleston Center) to help prevent opioid misuse in Charleston. Through this expanded partnership, the library is...