1. Receipt for an Advertisement in the Charleston Evening News from the Estate of Thomas Bacot, 1852
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2. The Evening News, 1852
- Date:
- 1852
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- The Evening News in 1852 discusses "Georgia Sarsaparilla" and it's effects on diseases of the liver and blood, the southern medical establishment, rates of gold, and an article titled "From a Peep into the Past." This article discusses the history behind Beaufain Street in Charleston, various burial sites, the first preaching to take place in the White Meeting House in 1690, the division of burial grounds for the "reception of master and slave," the first parsonage in 1698, and the "great gale" in 1752 where people died, and an enslaved man was clinging to a tree and rescued. Also includes are the histories of the Ball, Coming and Harleston families.