Box 177

Collection Overview From the Collection: The Archives of the College of Charleston include the records of the creation of the College primarily as an academy in 1785, of its reorganization and of the adoption of a comprehensive college curriculum in 1824 and 1825, of its existence as a municipal college from 1837 to 1949; and of its separate existence as a private institution from 1949 until it became a state institution on July 1, 1970.The minutes of the Trustees are complete from 1785 through the present. Among the...