HISTORY - POST CIVIL WAR
After the Civil War, the area's slave labor plantation system was eradicated, and new African-American communities were established. In 1868, freedman-carpenter Robert Scanlon purchased the 614-acre Remley Plantation that Charleston Harbor and the Wando River bordered. Scanlon founded the Charleston Land Company, and 100 African-American men paid $10 per share to purchase large tracts of land. Just west of Scanlonville was Riverside Beach. By 1930, the African American beach had a dance pavilion, athletics field, bathhouse, playground, and a boardwalk. Musical legends such as Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Louis Armstrong, B.B. King, and Ivory Joe Hunter performed there. By 1975, Charleston County assumed operation of the Riverside property and eventually sold it to developers. It's now Dunes West, a gated golf community.
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