Old Village Magazine

4 www.OldVillageMountPleasant.com | www.ColemanBoulevard.com feature by Margaret Ann Michels Our Past on a Corner Post OldVillage Street Names m apped references to the area now known as Mount Pleasant first appeared in the late 1600s. A 1672 map created for the Lords Proprietors refers to the land surrounded by Charleston Harbor, Shem Creek and Cove Inlet as North Point, while a later undated map indicates it is Oldwanus Point. The earliest known inhabitants of the land were members of the Sewee and Wandoe [sic] tribes. In 1680, the first European who lived here, Florence O’Sullivan, encountered these Indians, as did a group of Congregationalists from New England who settled in the Christ Church area in 1695. For the earliest settlers, major routes of transportation included the harbor, channels, rivers, inlets and creeks, Photo by Joel Cardwell