Welcome to our new series, Meet the Mayors! In these posts, we will be introducing readers to the historical mayors of the City of Charleston using our collections. You can see our finding aids for our Mayoral Collection here for a sneak peek at what's to come! John F. Ficken, from Hemphill, J.C. Men of Mark in South Carolina , 1908. For our series' inaugural post, we will be starting with Charleston's 48th Mayor, John F. Ficken, who served from December 1891 to December 189

We were fortunate to have Meghan Zimmerman join us once again as a summer intern at Records Management. Meghan joined us as a volunteer...

Guest post researched and written by Records Management 2025 Summer Intern Meghan Zimmerman Today we know Hampton Park as an expansive...

We are happy to announce the completion of Phase I of our Mapping Charleston project! After six months of working on our South Carolina...