City Directories and History: “This short street, only one block in length, has lost all but three of its antebellum houses. Many free blacks lived along this street before the Civil War, and it continued as home to a large African American population in the late-nineteenth century. Septima Poinsett Clark, a civil rights leader, spent her early adulthood in the two-and-a-half-story wood single house at 16 Henrietta Street, now gone.”
Information from: The Buildings of Charleston – J.H. Poston – Author, for the Historic Charleston Foundation, 1997
Other sources of interest: Charleston Tax Payers of Charleston, SC in 1860-61, Dwelling Houses of Charleston by Alice R.H. Smith – 1917, Charleston 1861 Census Schedule, and 1872 Bird’s Eye View of Charleston, S.C. The Hist. Charleston Foundation may also have additional data at: Past Perfect
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