Charleston SC old civil war building, by Drum Island???

[Harvo]

I have been to Charleston about 5 times now. I was driving over the new bridge from Mt Pleasant into Charleston over to the right you can see an old building half torn down, next to drum island. Any info. on what that building was? I actually almost drove to it. There is a recycling plant, I drove thru the gate and into a big field. They were doing some construction, the worker actually waved at me as I drove by them. I got half way there then the road got bad and my wife said turn around or park and walk. I just turned around. I ask some guy he just said it was an old building from the civil war and they can not demolish it. It looks like a old ship or packing building. Pretty cool I think. I actually though about renting a boat and going to in and drum island. Any info or history on it would be helpful.

 

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[cw0909]

i dont see it, whoops maybe this
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[TreasureDredgers]

Haha! Wow! Me and mine made the same walk out there not too long ago. We noticed it from the bridge too. We don't have much information on it either though.

 

[HutSiteDigger]

Just looked at a good picture of it on Google Images. That is a turn of the century industrial building that was probably used til the 50s when they stopped loading coal there.

 

[Harvo]

That is it, I had my metal dect with me. I wish I would have made the walk now. I did not know if it was on state or county land, did not want to goto jail. How did you find that photo with info.?

 

[taz42o]

Never heard of anything called a railroad coal truffle? Is that something made up by wikimapia?

 

[Harvo]

Haha! Wow! Me and mine made the same walk out there not too long ago. We noticed it from the bridge too. We don't have much information on it either though.

Is there any places you been too, that you recommend checking out. I am in Charleston until Sunday. That old RR building, is pretty cool. I found a old sunk boat in the water, there is no way I can get to it this trip. All is left is the wooden hull, in about 3 ft of water.

 

[cw0909]

Never heard of anything called a railroad coal truffle? Is that something made up by wikimapia?

must have been the name for it back then
http://books.google.com/books?id=yxFUAAAAIAAJ&lpg=PA942&ots=RDaXYw6gj4&dq=railroad%20coal%
20truffle&pg=PA942#v=onepage&q=railroad%20coal%20truffle&f=false

harvo i googled drum island
info on
The Story Behind Drum Island?s Piles Of Dirt | The James Island Messenger

 

[Harvo]

I was talking to an older man at Folly Beach, he said Drum Island was a good spot to look for shark teeth.

 

[Harvo]

i dont see it, whoops maybe this
Wikimapia - Let's describe the whole world!

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CW0909, how we're you able take those photos from google and post them here?

 

[cw0909]

CW0909, how we're you able take those photos from google and post them here?

on your keyboard is a button marked PSC/print scan, hit it then open a program like paint, right click mouse and paste

 

[taz42o]

must have been the name for it back then
http://books.google.com/books?id=yxFUAAAAIAAJ&lpg=PA942&ots=RDaXYw6gj4&dq=railroad%20coal%
20truffle&pg=PA942#v=onepage&q=railroad%20coal%20truffle&f=false

In that link it appears to read "traffic".
There is nothing called a coal truffle that i know of, maybe a mistake meant to read "coal tipple" witch is what was used to load coal onto railroad cars .

 

[Harvo]

This is the sunken boat that I was talking about. It is in the Cooper River.
I am heading back to FL today, so I dont get to go to it. Maybe one day.

 

[cw0909]

must have been the name for it back then
http://books.google.com/books?id=yxFUAAAAIAAJ&lpg=PA942&ots=RDaXYw6gj4&dq=railroad%20coal%
20truffle&pg=PA942#v=onepage&q=railroad%20coal%20truffle&f=false

In that link it appears to read "traffic".
There is nothing called a coal truffle that i know of, maybe a mistake meant to read "coal tipple" witch is what was used to load coal onto railroad cars .

yep bad bifocals lol, i thought "coal tipple" too