Working location
George S. Cook’s house on South Battery
South Battery · Charleston, South Carolina
Approximate historical location. South Battery, at the coordinate this site already holds for that street. The house is not identified.
In 1860 Cook paid $5,000 for two tracts on South Battery and built a three-story house on them — the measure of what a first-rate Charleston photographic business was worth on the eve of the war. He moved his family toward Columbia early in 1864.
The numbering problem
Charleston's present street numbers date from the city-wide renumbering carried out under contract from 1882 and finished before the earthquake of 31 August 1886. A wartime number and a modern number of the same name are not the same address, and no conversion table survives, so this location is not matched to a modern parcel.
Who worked here
- George Smith Cook23 February 1819 – 27 November 1902
What is there now
Which house is not established here.
Where the address comes from
- Stephen Davis and Jack W. Melton Jr., 100 Significant Civil War Photographs: Charleston in the War (Charleston: Historical Publications LLC, 2020).
Where the coordinate comes from
- Stephen Davis and Jack W. Melton Jr., 100 Significant Civil War Photographs: Charleston in the War (Charleston: Historical Publications LLC, 2020).
Sources
- Stephen Davis and Jack W. Melton Jr., 100 Significant Civil War Photographs: Charleston in the War (Charleston: Historical Publications LLC, 2020).