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Excellent resource for support materials for CDC.C students. Loan privileges with CU id. Alternate pickup location for PASCAL requests.

Primary resource for African-American history and culture focusing on Charleston and the Lowcountry. Non-circulating collection. By appointment only.

Located off the SC Room. Focuses on the public history of Charleston and the Lowcountry through original manuscripts, rare books, prints, photographs, and city records. Non-circulating collection/closed stacks. By appointment only.

Main branch of the public library system located at 68 Calhoun Street.

Founded in 1748, this cultural institution contains a rich collection of books, manuscripts, and archival material.

Additional resource for support materials. Loan privileges with CU id. Alternate pickup location for PASCAL requests.

A directory, in PDF format. Revised 2018.

Excellent resource for property records on historic buildings and homes, historical and architectural information, archeological reports, maps and plats, photographs, and architectural drawings. Non-circulating collection. By appointment only – contact archivist.

State's oldest and largest private repository of books, letters, journals, maps, drawings, and photographs about SC history. Located on the third floor of the Addlestone Library.

Excellent resource for historic property research, local history, and genealogy. Collection includes books, microforms, clipping files, maps and plats, city directories, and research databases. Non-circulating collection. Open to the public.

Non-circulating collection contains primary materials on the history and culture of the Lowcountry and the Atlantic World.

Special collections and rare books library for the Medical University of South Carolina. Houses books, journals, manuscripts, and museum artifacts dealing with the history of health sciences in South Carolina. By appointment only.

Searchable database of current and historical newspaper archives. Best resource for searching the Post & Courier and Charleston newspapers as far back as 1783. Accessible online through the Charleston County Public Library’s website with their free library card.

Over 35,000 images taken by Charleston's leading photographers. Includes buildings, streets, aerials, gardens, and historic events.

Historic American newspapers from 1777-1963. Good for searching small town newspapers in S.C.

Nearly 300 digital collections compiled by the University of South Carolina Libraries.

Over 40,000,000 images, texts, videos, and sounds from across the U.S. Over 28,000 items for Charleston. Includes items from LCDL and SCDL.

A digital public history project hosted by the College of Charleston in collaboration with multi-institutional partners to make archival materials, historic landscape features and structures, and scholarly research available to the public.

Digital images from the archives of nineteen Lowcountry institutions, including the College of Charleston, the Charleston Museum, Drayton Hall, the Gibbes Museum of Art, Middleton Place Foundation, and the Charleston Archive. Images include architectural drawings, maps, photographs, documents, manuscripts, and much more.

Free access to digital materials from over 40 cultural institutions state-wide. Includes photographs, manuscripts, books, journals, objects, and more.

Useful for locating ordinances, plats, and permits.

Maps and applications developed by the City of Charleston GIS team. Includes flood maps, sea level rise, MAPNET, interactive zoning maps, document search, and interactive bike map.

For properties in the City of Charleston only. Search by address or tax map number.

Information on active permits in the City of Charleston.

The city of Charleston's racial equity story map - an interactive website that relies on GIS mapping and data collection to create visual representations of racial discrimination and disparities.

Maintains city records of permanent importance to the city, its citizens, and future generations. Useful in researching property records. Includes sources for historical research, finding aids, and historic information, such as plans and studies.

Created in 2005 by Mayor Joe Riley to further the study, identification, protection, and interpretation of the Walled City of Charleston.

Source for historic property record cards and tax records.

Administers the County's Comprehensive Plan ordinance and prepares various studies and plans related to the current and future use of land in Charleston County.

Primary resource for researching property records, including plats and deeds. Maintains records of land titles, liens and other documents related to property transactions. Historic room contains records of deeds, McCrady plats and Gaillard plats.

Online services include GIS Parcel Viewer, FEMA Flood Maps, and Charleston County Street Atlas.

How-to guide developed by the Historic Charleston Foundation.

Useful for locating parcel ids. Aerial imagery.

A regional agency offering a wide variety of planning, economic development, and social services to aid with growth and development in the area. Good source of information on transportation, traffic counts, mapping and GIS.

Source for economic, demographic, and workforce data on the Charleston region – Charleston, Berkeley, and Dorchester counties.

Documents achievements in architecture, engineering, and landscape design in the U.S. Includes HABS, HAER, and HALS. Digital images of measured drawings, photographs, histories, and supplemental materials.

Contributing Institution: Charleston Archive at Charleston County Public Library. Included in LCDL.

Interactive map for locating National Register points and historic structures and areas.

A repository for information about South Carolina plantations and the people who lived and worked on them. Includes data on more the 2,000 plantations. Arranged by county.

Self-described as the largest directory of South Carolina information on the internet. Current and historical. Categories include history, cities, counties, government, maps (historic and current), plantations, webcams, photo gallery (SC Picture Project), and much more. Pretty much covers it all.

Online cultural resource information system for SC. Historic areas and structures. National Register points. Combines information from the state's archaeological and built heritage.

Archives for documents, genealogy, historic preservation, and the cultural heritage of SC.

Aerial photographs of Charleston, South Carolina

Searchable by county and year from the 1930s to the 1980s.

Panoramic map of the city of Charleston in 1872. Not to drawn to scale. Published by C.N. Drie.

Located in the South Carolina Room at Charleston County Public Library. Includes the Bridgens and Allen map of 1852.

High-definition, colorized, interactive Sanborn maps. See FIMo in Clemson Libraries Databases for maps of GA, NC, SC, and TN. Also, accessible online through the Charleston County Public Library's website with their free library card.

Interactive maps that explore Charleston history through time

Digitized collection of historic maps from the holdings of five Alabama institutions.

Searchable by county and date. Part of a national collection of Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps.

Digitized historic maps.

Use ArcGIS and LIDAR to create topographical maps.

Compiled 1932-1934 by J. T. Kollock showing major landholders in the 1860s.

Interactive and digital maps for viewing and download.

From 1671 to 1898, including Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps, Halsey’s Charleston Map of 1949, and interactive Bird’s eye view of the city 1872.

Current and historical maps by county and city, environmental and topographical maps, plats

Digital images of Charleston County road maps from 1938 to 1978.

Drill down through census data mapped to 10+ different levels, from entire country to block level. Data source: 2010 US Census and the 2012-2016 American Community Survey.

Updated version

Creation of CCPL archivist Nic Butler containing research on Charleston history.

Resources compiled by the Historic Charleston Foundation.

Annotated bibliography of materials available in the South Carolina Room and the Charleston Archive at the Charleston County Public Library.

Preservation tools and resources.

Eclectic mix of content on South Carolina – history, images, and records – dedicated to preserve local history.

Changes in street numbers over the years. Compiled by the Charleston Archive, Charleston County Public Library.