Commissioners of Streets & Lamps journals, 1806-1866.

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Commissioners of Streets & Lamps journals, 1806-1866.

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Commissioners of Streets & Lamps records (two volumes) concerning work done on opening and widening streets, lanes, and alleys. Records include work pertaining to paving and repairing streets, maintaining drains, erecting lightposts, and the employment of lamplighters and street cleaners. Records contain plats of city blocks (plats depict several buildings). Volume 1 (34/408/1-4) contains minutes (1806-1818) of meetings of the Board of Commissioners. Volume 2 (34/409/1-2) contains minutes (1818-1866) of meetings of the Board of Commissioners, as well as plats. Also included are a printed memorial (1862) "Tribute of Respect to the Memory of Hon. Mitchell King" (former Chairman of the Board), and letters (1866) from P.C. Gaillard (Mayor of Charleston, S.C.) and from W.H. Smith (Clerk of Council) about the widening of Queen Street.

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Gaillard, Peter C., 1812-1889

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Smith, W. H., Mrs.

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J.C. Fitzhenry & R.P. Mansfield operated a grocery store in Tombstone, Ariz. From the description of Smith trial transcript, 1885-1885. (Arizona Historical Society, Southern Arizona Division). WorldCat record id: 44021509 ...

Charleston (S.C.). Commissioners of Streets and Lamps.

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The Board of Commissioners, created by an act of the legislature and elected by the city council, has the power and authority both to declare which streets, lanes, and alleys of the city should be widened, and to carry out their decisions. From the description of Commissioners of Streets & Lamps journals, 1806-1866. (The South Carolina Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 32139087 ...

King, Mitchell, 1783-1862

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Born in Scotland, Mitchell King arrived in Charleston, South Carolina in 1805. In 1806 King became an assistant teacher at the College of Charleston. Interested in studying law, King began studies at the office of George Warren Cross in 1807. King was temporarily appointed principal of the College of Charleston in 1810. King chose, however, to continue his study of law when he was offered the position permanently. Admitted to the bar in 1810, King immediately opened his own practice. He was elec...