Program

FRIDAY, MARCH 7, 2025

5:00-6:00 p.m.  
Symposium Registration and Opening Night Reception: 
Old Federal Court Room, 23 Chalmers Street 
Built in the early 19th-century, the building housed the U.S. District Court from 1845 to 1860 before becoming part of the Confederate Home and College property. In 1867, sisters Mary Amarinthia Snowden and Isabella Yates Snowden established a home for Confederate widows and orphans, while later opening a teachers college on the premises as well. The facility today, emphasizing respect and dignity for all people, operates as a non-profit organization providing needed charitable services, primarily housing for those with limited means and college scholarships.

6:00-7:00 p.m. 
Contending for Liberty: Two Revolutionary Projects at Colonial Williamsburg
Keynote Address with Matthew A. Webster
Executive Director, Grainger Department of Architectural Preservation and Research, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation; Williamsburg, VA

SATURDAY, MARCH 8, 2025

8:15 a.m. 
Coffee Service: Old Federal Court Room, 23 Chalmers Street 

8:45-9:15 a.m. 
Welcoming Remarks and Preservation Society Overview 
Brian R. Turner, President & C.E.O.,
Preservation Society of Charleston; Charleston, SC

9:15-10:15 a.m. 
Beyond the Teapot: Ceramics in an Age of Revolution
Ashli C. White, Ph.D., Professor and Chair, Department of History, University of Miami; Author; Miami, FL

10:30-11:30 a.m. 
Revolutionary Blacks: Discovering the Frank Brothers, Freeborn Men of Color, Soldiers of Independence
Shirley L. Green, Ph.D., Adjunct Professor, Department of History, University of Toledo and Bowling Green State University; Director, Toledo Police Museum; Author; Toledo, OH

11:45 a.m.-12:45 p.m. 
The Swords of George Washington
Erik J. Goldstein, Senior Curator of Mechanical Arts, Metals, and Numismatics, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation; Author; Williamsburg, VA

12:45-2:00 p.m. 
Midday Break
Box lunches are being provided 
Old Federal Court Room, 23 Chalmers Street 

2:00-3:00 p.m.
British Occupied Charleston, 1780-1782: Diverse Experiences and Life in a Divided City
Christina Rae Butler, Dean and Professor of Historic Preservation, American College of the Building Arts; Professor, College of Charleston; Principal, Butler Preservation, L.C.; Author; Charleston, SC

3:15-4:15 p.m.
The First Draft of History: John Trumbull’s Vision of America’s Founding
Mark D. Mitchell, Ph.D., Holcombe T. Green Curator of American Paintings and Sculpture, Yale University Art Gallery; New Haven, CT

4:15-4:30 p.m.
Symposium synopsis and introduction to the Daniel Elliott Huger House for the Evening Soirée
Robert A. Leath, Executive Director,
Edenton Historical Commission; Edenton, NC

6:00-7:30 p.m.
Evening Soirée at the Daniel Elliott Huger House (c.1760)
Sitting on a high foundation, this stuccoed brick double house with central stair case is three stories tall with four primary rooms per floor. Interior featuresInterior features include handsome paneling and an elegant ornamental ceiling in the drawing room. Once home to the last Royal Governor of South Carolina, Lord William Campbell, it is one of the few royal governors’ houses to survive from the colonial period. The house was purchased in 1818 by U.S. Senator and attorney Daniel Elliott Huger, whose father had been a member of the Continental Congress and the nation's first Congress. More than 200 years later, his descendants continue to live in this exceptional historic home.

Shuttles are provided to the house from the Old Federal Court Room.

SUNDAY, MARCH 9, 2025

10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
Study Tour at the Simons Tenement (c. 1770)
This Georgian 3½ story double frame house, built by the Simons family of planters as an investment, is the the southern-half of a double tenement. In the 18th century, the word "tenement" simply denoted property rented or occupied someone other than the owner. Located on a double lot in a rare residential development surviving from the late colonial period, this grand Charleston single house has beaded wooden siding and sits on a low brick foundation with an upper tier piazza which was added later. It shares a common wall, hipped dormer roof, and central chimneys with its neighbor. Recently, the handsome home was meticulously restored to preserve it for generations to come.

This special visit includes Bloody Marys and a light brunch.
Shuttles are provided to the house from the Old Federal Court Room.