“Big Red” flew over Castle Pinckney for The Citadel’s homecoming football game against Chattanooga on November 9th, thanks to one determined Bulldog!The Stray Dog Society held its 12th Annual Big Red Flag Raising Cruise to the historic fort in Charleston … Continue reading
Smoke billowed from Castle Pinckney early Saturday afternoon on November 2nd, confounding some locals in Charleston and plenty of boaters in the harbor. In fact, the U.S. Coast Guard dispatched a vessel and a helicopter to investigate.But all is well.Castle … Continue reading
Hundreds of Eastern Brown Pelicans and other coastal birds flew from Castle Pinckney in Charleston Harbor early Saturday morning, October 5th, as about a dozen volunteers aboard several small boats approached the site.The volunteers were on a mission to clean … Continue reading
Engraving of Castle Pinckney published in Harper’s Weekly on Jan. 26, 1861, and then colored. Reprinted courtesy of the NYPL Digital Collections. The first three paragraphs of the editorial published on Oct. 2, 2024, and a link to the entire … Continue reading
Using historical documents and photos, Salt Marsh Galleries has created three cool historical visualizations of Castle Pickney and combined them into one three-minute-long YouTube video. The first segment of the visualization shows the fort on the eve of the Civil … Continue reading
The National Flag of France, the “Tri-Color” John Mahoney, a local, recently ventured out to the Castle Pickney site in Charleston Harbor to hoist France’s Tri-Color Flag above the historic fort. The tri-color or tricolour, the national flag of France, … Continue reading
A new article, “Civil War Transformation of Castle Pinckney,” was recently published in the fall issue of The Artilleryman Magazine (Vol. 45, No. 4). The article was written by W. Clifford Roberts, Jr. and Matthew A.M. Locke, who recently published … Continue reading
Finally, a great book on Castle Pinckney has been published! Holding CHARLESTON by the Bridle focuses on the history of the crescent-shaped fort, located on Shute’s Folly about a mile off Charleston’s East Battery, that precedes that of its better-known … Continue reading
The six-member scientific team that launched a study in April of coastal birds residing in and near Charleston Harbor ─ including Castle Pinckney ─ completed its field work late July. This is the second and final update since the project … Continue reading