Exchange Building

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Stock #:90319
Type: Postcard
Era: Linen
City: Charleston
State: South Carolina (SC)
County: Berkeley,Charleston
Publisher: J. Martsching Co.
Postmark: 1951 Dec-06
Postmark City: Lake & Ft. Myers
Postmark State: R.P.O
Stamp: 1C
Size: 3.5" x 5.5" (9 x 14 cm)

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The old Exchange building is one of the most historic sites in Charleston. Pirates were confined in its bastile in 1718. Later it was used as military headquarters. Here, during the Revolutionary War, the Provincial Congress set up the first Independent Government in America. In 1818 it was the Post Office.

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