DeReef family
Family
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Bell family papers
Collection
Identifier: AMN 1001
Abstract
The African American Bell family of Charleston, South Carolina were descended from Sally (Sarah) Johnson, the matriarch of a free family of color who purchased 2 Green Street, circa 1844. In 1912, the property was willed to Hiram L. Bell (died 1952), a son of Jesse Miles DeReef and Holten L. Bell.These papers document properties owned by the family, especially the historic home at 2 Green Street, Charleston, sold to the College of Charleston in 1971. With materials on the history...
Dates:
approximately 1890-1972
DeReef Court and Park collection
Collection
Identifier: AMN 1128
Abstract
DeReef Court is a former African-American residential housing community in the City of Charleston, South Carolina established in 1854. Named after Joseph and Richard Edward DeReef, free men of color who were successful entrepreneurial brothers. Presently, the residential park known as DeReef Park represents the last green space in the Cannonborough/Elliotborough neighborhood.The collection holds ancestral histories, photocopied deeds and census reports regarding the DeReef...
Dates:
1854-2012; Majority of material found within 1990-2012
East Side Oral History Project
Collection
Identifier: AMN 1199
Abstract
The East Side Oral History Project collection contains three oral history interviews conducted by Elizabeth Alston as part of the research process for the Charleston Museum Leaflet Number 30, Between the Tracks: The Heritage of Charleston’s East Side Community. Included in the collection are transcripts of the oral histories conducted with Lorraine Fordham, Frances Mack, and Phillip Simmons. In their interviews, interviewees discuss growing up on the East...
Dates:
approximately 1980-1987
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- African American families -- South Carolina -- Charleston 2
- African American churches -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- African American neighborhoods -- South Carolina 1
- African Americans -- Genealogy 1
- African Americans -- History 1
- African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History 1
- Architecture -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- Bricklayers -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- Cannonborough-Elliottborough (Charleston, S.C.) 1
- DeReef Court (Charleston, S.C.) 1
- DeReef Park (Charleston, S.C.) 1
- East Side (Charleston, S.C.) 1
- Gentrification -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- Historic Buildings -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- Oral histories 1
- Radcliffeborough (Charleston, S.C.) 1
- South Carolina -- History -- 1865- 1
- transcripts 1