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the status of Fort Moultrie. The fort, which played an important role in two wars, the American Revolution and the Civil War, had been rebuilt twice since the Revolution and was still in operation on the west end of the island as the United States en- tered World War II. When Williams went to visit his aunt, who lived near the fort, he first had to face the sentries who were guarding the area. He remembers watching small boats, some of them built at the Navy yard in Charleston, going through ma- neuvers on the beach near Station 9, the first stop on the island for the trolley that once carried passengers to Sullivan’s Island and to Long Island, now the Isle of Palms. “After the exercises, kids would go


70 years ago, part of the island was farmland. Roy Williams has spent more than six decades of his 75 years on Sullivan’s Island. As a youngster, his family lived in Charleston and had a summer home on the island, which was common for many Lowcountry families in simpler times – back in the 1940s and 1950s. The house he still lives in on I’On Street has been standing for more than a century – the materials to build it were floated over to the island by boat – and its residents enjoyed a front-beach loca- tion until the 1960s, when a road was built between the house and


the sandy expanse that touches the Atlantic. Much has changed since Wil-


liams’ World War II-era childhood on Sullivan’s Island, due in part to


out there and look for what the sol- diers had left behind,” Williams said. “We’d find Lucky Strike cigarettes and sometimes even more. If a youngster found some military gear, he was the king of the neighborhood.” The fort was shut down in August 1947 and is now operated by the National Park Service as part of the Fort Sumter National Monument. Williams’ memories of his child- hood and later on the island include visits to small grocery stores owned by the Werner, Cantwell and Sim- mons families, as well as a place of business named for the shape of its lot where Jasper Boulevard, Middle Street and Station 24 meet – hence the name Triangle Grocery. He also remembers fondly a candy store


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