One year after the first shots of the Civil War were fired at nearby Fort Sumter, the Planter’s three white officers went ...

The Charleston Museum will host a special storytelling event about Robert Smalls on Wednesday for young children. Museum ...

A group studying where to put South Carolina's first Statehouse monument to an individual African American has decided Robert Smalls' statue should be staring down a notorious white supremacist ...

Smalls grew up in downtown Charleston. She worked at Roper Hospital for 15 years coordinating special events and catering functions and also worked in hotel hospitality. “I’ve done food ...

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A clay rendering of the Robert Smalls monument. Basil Watson, of Georgia, design selected was selected to sculpt the statue.

On the evening of May 12, 1862, the Confederate ship Planter sailed into Charleston’s harbor, and the captain and officers, breaching protocol, disembarked for a night of socializing. It was the rare ...

Beaufort County deputies responded to an activated alarm just before midnight Jan. 28 at the One Stop Smoke & Vape Outlet, located at 246 Robert Smalls Parkway near the highway’s intersection ...

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