South Carolina, recalls his childhood at the home. During this period, the history of preservation in Charleston began to take shape. Te following passage is from the foreword to “Preserving Charleston’s Past, Shaping its Future: Te Life and Times of Susan Pringle Frost”: “It was my mother who urged my father to buy a very ramshackle frame house at 190 Tradd Street, but it was Susan Frost who showed my mother how she could improve the purchase by an addition of an iron fence across the front and wooden columns to support a new piazza. …I was born in 1922 after my parents moved into 190 Tradd, and thus I grew up amid the pile drivers on the marshy lots and unpaved streets. Pluff mud and rats were part of the


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1768 – Gov. Charles Greville Montagu and the South


Carolina Legislature set aside land on the western end of the peninsula for the use of the “public common.”


1830 – Chisolm’s Rice Mill


was built.


1859 – Fire damaged the original rice mill.


1880s – Dubose Heyward lived at 190


Tradd St. as a child.


1911 – A hurricane almost completely


destroyed the mill.


1920 – George C. Rogers


Sr. completely renovated the superintendent’s house at 190 Tradd St.


1894 – The Chisolms sold the


1817 – The city of Charleston sold


the “public” land to Joshua Brown.


rice mill property.


1859 – The rice mill was completely rebuilt with a new,


four-story brick structure.


1840 – The home at 190 Tradd


was built as the superintendent’s residence.


1914 – The government purchased


the mill property for $60,000 from Andrew B. Murray and the West Point Mill Company, to be used as a lighthouse depot.


1934 – $47,056 was allocated by the Public


Works Administration for the construction of a lighthouse headquarters on the site of the mill.


1978 – The home was sold by


Rogers’ son to Mr. and Mrs. George Nelson Brown.


2010 – Extensive


renovations were completed on the home at 190 Tradd St.


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1935 – The construction of the


lighthouse depot was completed by A.K. Adams and Co., at a cost of $42,465.


1935 – Rogers enlarged the home


at 190 Tradd by adding a den, a bedroom and a sun porch, the L-shaped addition that exists today.


1996 – The current owners


purchased the home at 190 Tradd St.


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natural scene. Perhaps that was implied when one said that one grew up ‘below the drain.’ One turned an ugly necessity into a mark of distinction. But now I can clearly see that there were good minds at work trying to make the city a better place in which to live. Why would my mother have taken us to live in such an area, which was periodically submerged by passing hurricanes and spring and fall high tides?” Te home was eventually sold by


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George C. Rogers Jr. in 1978 to Mr. and Mrs. George Nelson Brown. Since then it has changed hands


a few more times. In 2010, the current owners completed extensive renovations on the home, maintaining its historic integrity while adding modern conveniences such as a


completely rebuilt garage, a wine bar, a chef’s kitchen with a dual fuel range, granite countertops and more. Te home is currently on the market for $1.43 million.


For more information regarding Charleston area properties contact, Marion Jackson at (843)442.4404 or email marionjacksonrealtor@yahoo.com. Visit more homes for sale online at www. onlinecharlestonrealestate.com.


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For historical property research, contact Kimberly Taylor at Preservation Papers - (864) 415-3439.


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