Discovering the 55th, 30 Years Later In June 1987, relic hunters Robert Bohrn and Eric Croen uncovered the find of a lifetime. Following the tracks of a bulldozer clearing the way for houses on present day West Indian Avenue, their metal detectors alerted them to the...
RACE AND INJUSTICE ON FOLLY, CIRCA 1864 During the Civil War struggles for control of Charleston Harbor, three regiments of African-American Union soldiers were stationed on Folly Beach. Racial inequality was not only a trait of life in the American South—the...
