{"product_id":"old-map-of-charleston-sc-by-cram-1900-king-meeting-battery-hampton-park-citadel-cooper-river","title":"Old Map of Charleston, SC by Cram 1900: King \u0026 Meeting, Battery, Hampton Park, Citadel, Cooper River","description":"\u003cp\u003eCharleston South Carolina, issued in 1900 by the eminent American mapmaker George F. Cram, presents a richly detailed city plan of the peninsula between the Ashley and Cooper Rivers at a moment of poised transition. Executed in cerographic printing, its vibrant color blocks and crisp linework distinguish districts, thoroughfares, and the city’s working waterfront with remarkable clarity. Ornate cartouches and careful late-19th-century embellishments frame a composition that is both useful and elegant, inviting close study of streets, public places, and civic institutions. As a city map, it is especially compelling for how it captures the historic core—church spires, market streets, and river edges—just as Charleston enters the modern twentieth century but before large-scale redevelopment recast its neighborhoods.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCram’s plan organizes the peninsula’s famed street grid with a legibility that rewards exploration. King Street and Meeting Street run like spines through an intricate weave of cross streets—Beaufain, Wentworth, George, Tradd, and Society—while Church and East Bay converge toward the storied tip of the Battery. To the northwest, Cannonborough coheres around Cannon Street and Ashley Avenue, an area of growing residences knit to commerce along King. Nearby Radcliffeborough is annotated with a small military academy, and the Citadel campus appears as expanses of largely open ground—an eloquent cartographic pause that hints at future growth. This interplay of dense blocks and institutional greens conveys the period’s urban planning ethos with uncommon precision.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAt the peninsula’s upper reaches, the map traces Charleston’s evolving landscape of leisure and memory. Hampton Park is shown in the context of the Washington Race Course—at the time a racecourse named in honor of George Washington—capturing the transition from track to city parkland that would soon define the area. The adjacent Public Cemetery and Magnolia Cemetery extend a contemplative green corridor toward the Cooper River, their curving lanes and ordered plots contrasting with the rectilinear city grid. Together these spaces reveal how Charlestonians balanced recreation, commemoration, and the preservation of open ground as the city grew northward, making this an especially revealing urban portrait.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWaterfront orientation is another strength of the map. Along the Cooper River, industrial frontage and rail connections align with East Bay Street and Morrison Drive, while Cunnington Avenue leads inland toward the cemeteries and rail yards. On the Ashley side, the street network steps down to the water in measured increments, with Murray Boulevard and the East Battery tracing the city’s celebrated seawall and promenade. Cram carefully plots train lines threading the peninsula, signaling Charleston’s integration into regional commerce at the dawn of the new century. The result is a lucid depiction of how streets, docks, and rails interlocked to shape everyday movement and economic life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGeorge F. Cram’s cartographic discipline underpins every element of this plan. A leading American mapmaker of the late nineteenth century, he excelled at city mapping that fused aesthetic refinement with practical intelligence, here harnessing cerography to deliver vivid, stable color and exceptional legibility. His ornamental cartouches, calibrated color palette, and precise labeling transform an urban diagram into a portrait—one that registers neighborhoods like Cannonborough and Radcliffeborough, the Citadel’s reserved grounds, and the arterial sweep from Tradd to Cannon with authoritative clarity. As a document of early-twentieth-century urban development in Charleston, this map endures as both a work of art and an indispensable guide to the city’s physical and cultural geography.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eStreets and roads on this map\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAiken Street\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAshley Avenue\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBeaufain Street\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCannon Street\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCharlotte Street\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChurch Street\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCunnington Avenue\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEast Bay Street\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEast Battery\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFranklin Street\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGeorge Street\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eKing Street\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLincoln Street\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMeeting Street\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMill Street\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMorrison Drive\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMurray Boulevard\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSmith Street\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSociety Street\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTradd Street\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWentworth Street\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNotable Features \u0026amp; Landmarks\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHampton Park\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCannonborough neighborhood\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCitadel campus (historical context)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCooper River\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAshley River\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWashington Race Course\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePublic Cemetery\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMagnolia Cemetery\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHistorical and design context\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eName: Charleston South Carolina; Mapmaker\/Publisher: George F. Cram; Date: 1900\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDetailed city plan centering on the historic part of Charleston\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDisplays neighborhoods including Hampton Park and Cannonborough\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHampton Park was a racecourse at the time, named after George Washington\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRadcliffeborough contains a small military academy, with the Citadel campus largely empty\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTopics and themes include streets, buildings, train lines, public places, rivers, and residential areas\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eReflects urban planning and development during the early 20th century\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eUtilizes cerographic printing to enable vibrant color\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOrnate cartouches and careful detailing reflect late 19th-century map-making aesthetics\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRegion shown: Charleston, South Carolina, United States\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRepresents urban development in Charleston and highlights historic neighborhoods relevant to local culture and history\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003ePlease double check the images to make sure that a specific town or place is shown on this map. You can also get in touch and ask us to check the map for you.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis map looks great at every size, but I always recommend going for a larger size if you have space. That way you can easily make out all of the details. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis map looks amazing at sizes all the way up to 50in (125cm). If you are looking for a larger map, please \u003ca href=\"\/pages\/contact-us\"\u003eget in touch\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eThe model in the listing images is holding the 16x20in (40x50cm) version of this map.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe fifth listing image shows an example of my map personalisation service.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf you’re looking for something slightly different, check out my collection of the \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/all-old-vintage-antique-maps\"\u003ebest old maps\u003c\/a\u003e to see if something else catches your eye.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePlease \u003ca href=\"\/pages\/contact-us\"\u003econtact me\u003c\/a\u003e to check if a certain location, landmark or feature is shown on this map.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis would make a wonderful birthday, Christmas, Father's Day, work leaving, anniversary or housewarming gift for someone from the areas covered by this map.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis map is available as a giclée print on acid free archival matte paper, or you can buy it framed. The frame is a nice, simple black frame that suits most aesthetics. Please get in touch if you'd like a different frame colour or material. My frames are glazed with super-clear museum-grade acrylic (perspex\/acrylite), which is significantly less reflective than glass, safer, and will always arrive in perfect condition.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Unique Maps Co.","offers":[{"title":"12x16in (30x40cm) \/ Map","offer_id":57969076994432,"sku":"UM00274843A","price":54.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"12x16in (30x40cm) \/ Framed map","offer_id":57969077027200,"sku":"UM00274844A","price":145.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"12x16in (30x40cm) \/ Framed canvas map","offer_id":57969077059968,"sku":"UM00274845A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"A3 (297x420mm) \/ Map","offer_id":57969077092736,"sku":"UM00274846A","price":54.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"A3 (297x420mm) \/ Framed map","offer_id":57969077125504,"sku":"UM00274847A","price":145.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"A3 (297x420mm) \/ Framed canvas 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