Historical Maps of Charleston, South Carolina

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Historical Maps of Charleston SC

• Plat of Charles Town - 1671
• Charles Town by Mortier - 1696
• Plan of Charles Town - 1704
• Crisp Map of Charles Town - 1711 - Cartographer Edward Crisp created this map from surveys completed by John Love, Maurice Mathews, and Captain Thomas Nairne. Some sources give the date as 1715, but this is inaccurate. See the full map, titled Complete Description (Map) of the Province of Carolina.
• Ichnography of Charles-Town at High Water - 1739
  
• Port of Charles Town - 1764
  
• Charlestown Harbor, plan of fort on Sullivan's Island - 1776
  
• Fort Sullivan - 1780
• Operations of Charlestown - 1780
  
• Plan of Charles Town with entrenchments - 1780
• Siege of Charlestown - 1780
  
• Sir Henry Clinton's map of Charleston - 1780
  
• Ichnography of Charleston by Edmund Petrie - 1788
  
• Charleston District Parishes - 1790
  
• Map of Charles Town - 1809 - this map by James Akin's is an altered copy of the 1711 Crisp map listed above
  
• Charleston Harbour - 1822
• Plan of city neck of Charleston - 1844
• Charleston street map - 1849
• Proposed entrance to Charleston Harbour - 1854
  
• Charleston street map - 1855 - on right
• Charleston Harbor - 1858 - U.S. Coast Survey
• Charleston Harbor - circa 1860
• Charleston Harbor - circa 1860 - by W.A. Williams
• Charleston harbor defenses - circa 1860
• Charleston and vicinity - 1862 - by E. & G.W. Blunt
• Stono Inlet trigonometrical survey map - 1862
  
• Charleston and its defenses - 1863
• Charleston Harbor and its approaches - 1863
• Charleston Harbor and its defenses - 1863
• Charleston Harbor, attack of the Iron Clad Monitors - 1863
  
• Morris Island - Fort Wagner 1863
  
• Siege operations between Fort Sumter and Fort Wagner - 1863
  
• Charleston and its defenses - 1865
• Defense of Charleston Harbor on James Island - 1865
  
• Fort Johnson - 1865
• Fort Sumter - 1865
• Fort Sumter when captured - 1865
• Sullivan's Island defenses - 1865
  
• Panoramic map of Charleston - 1872 - click to enlarge, zoom in for great detail!
  
• Charleston - 1877
• Charleston street map - 1885
• Charleston - 1898
• Charleston County Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps - several Charleston area maps, made between 1884 and 1964 - great details of cities, towns - click images to enlarge
  
• Halsey's Charleston Map - 1949 - click subheadings on left for list of those topics