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Mazyckborough and Mazyck Lands
Joseph Purcell laid out Mazyckborough for Alexander Mazyck in 1786. it was bounded by Chapel, Elizabeth and Calhoun streets and the Cooper River. Beginning in 1766 Christopher Gadsen and the Mechanicks party who called themselves the 'Sons of Liberty' met under the live oak tree many times to oppose the policies of Great Britain toward the colonies. The British cut down the oak tree to prevent it becoming a Patriot Shrine.
Mazyck Lands this area bounded generally by the present day streets of Broad, Legare, Queen, Archdale, Beaufain and Smith, was granted to James Moore in 1698 and conveyed…
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