Magnolia Cemetery

Historic Property

Alternate Name:

Unknown

Street Address:

Huguenin St., Charleston, SC (Charleston County)

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Site Number:

0077.00

Control Number:

U/19/0077.00

Tax Number:

4640000020

Date Surveyed:

April 15 2003

Category:

Site

Construction Date:

1850

Historic Use:

Funerary

Current Use:

Funerary

Architect or Builder:

Jones, Edward C. (architect)

National Register Determination:

listed;

Signficant Architectural Features:

Very large cemetery; still in use; many mausoleums, obelisks, and statues; tidal creek dammed to make lake in middle of cemetery, H.L. Hunley; see NRHP nomination form for more detail

Historical Information:

Located on lands once part of the Magnolia Umbra Plantation, this cemetery was laid out as Charleston's city church burying yards became overcrowded. Its style imitates Mount Auburn Cemetery in Boston and Greenwood Cemetery in New York. Some of the people buried in the cemetery include Thomas Bennett (SC Governor 1820-1822, R. Barnwell Rhett (US Congressman and Senator), author William Gilmore Simms, and Captain Horace Hunley and his crew from the submarine that bears his name.

Source of Historical Information:

Magnolia Cemetery NRHP nomination

Quadrangle Name:

Charleston

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