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Charleston Time Machine

Nic Butler, Ph.D.
Charleston Time Machine
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  • Charleston Time Machine

    Episode 316: Governor William Campbell and the Scorpion, sailing to Charleston in 1775

    02/20/2026 | 27 mins.
    The first sparks of the American Revolution ignited during the spring of 1775, while Lord William Campbell prepared to sail from England to his post as Governor of South Carolina. His contacts and conversations during that turbulent year presaged an uncertain reception in Charleston. As civil war erupted in Massachusetts, the king’s ministers empowered Campbell to choose his future course—either trim the sails of unruly Carolina, or abandon the provincial ship of state.
  • Charleston Time Machine

    Episode 315: Lord William Campbell, Sarah Izard, and their Carolina Connection, Part 2

    02/06/2026 | 22 mins.
    The newlyweds, Lord and Lady William Campbell, settled in England after their 1763 marriage in Charleston, but the young couple actively nurtured familial connections to South Carolina over the course of the ensuing decade. Political, financial, and naval alliances made during the 1760s, followed by a tour of the colonies and a relaxing sojourn in Charleston in 1772, fortified their bonds to His Majesty’s most profitable colony in North America.
  • Charleston Time Machine

    Episode 314: Lord William Campbell, Sarah Izard, and their Carolina Connection, Part 1

    01/23/2026 | 32 mins.
    In the late winter of 1763, a young British officer sailed into Charleston Harbor aboard a warship assigned to protect the trade of a flourishing colony. Weeks later, Captain Lord William Campbell married a local heiress, Sarah Izard, and became invested in the slave-owning community. Their hasty union marked the beginning of a longer saga that culminated, twelve years later, with the unraveling of British authority in the province of South Carolina.
  • Charleston Time Machine

    Episode 313: The 1775 Debut of the South Carolina Flag

    12/19/2025 | 25 mins.
    In the autumn of 1775, rebellious South Carolinians raised a distinctive new flag over a waterfront fort just seized from British hands. Their commanding officer later described the creation of the state’s enduring banner in his memoir, but did not recall the date of its unveiling. Across Charleston Harbor, however, two British naval officers witnessed the flag’s debut and recorded a surprising detail regarding its appearance.
  • Charleston Time Machine

    Episode 312: The Demise of Butcher Town and the Charleston Abattoir

    12/05/2025 | 32 mins.
    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 decades-long battle between private enterprise and public efforts to regulate the industry. Following a suite of political and technological developments in the early twentieth century, a modern municipal abattoir ultimately scrubbed the ancient blood-soaked industry from the local landscape.

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About Charleston Time Machine

Dr. Nic Butler, historian at the Charleston County Public Library, explores the less familiar corners of local history with stories that invite audiences to reflect on the enduring presence of the past in the Lowcountry of South Carolina.
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