Scanlonville

Scanlonville is a neighborhood in Charleston County, South Carolina. Scanlonville is situated nearby to the neighborhood Remleys Point, as well as near Molasses Creek.

Type: Neighborhood
Description: hamlet in Charleston County, South Carolina, United States
Also known as: “Scanlonville, SC” and “Scanlonville, South Carolina”

Places of Interest

Highlights include USS Yorktown and USS Laffey.

USS Yorktown

Museum

Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.

USS Yorktown is one of 24 Essex-class aircraft carriers built during World War II for the United States Navy. Initially to have been named Bonhomme Richard, she was renamed Yorktown while still under construction, after the Yorktown-class aircraft carrier USS Yorktown , which was sunk at the Battle of Midway. USS Yorktown is situated 1½ miles southwest of Scanlonville.

USS Laffey

Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.

USS Laffey is an Allen M. Sumner-class destroyer constructed during World War II, laid down and launched in 1943, and commissioned in February 1944. She was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for Seaman Bartlett Laffey, who was awarded the Medal of Honor for his stand against Confederate forces during the Civil War. USS Laffey is situated 1½ miles south of Scanlonville.

Arthur Ravenel Jr. Bridge

Bridge

Photo: bbatsell, CC BY-SA 2.5.

The Arthur Ravenel Jr. Bridge is a cable-stayed bridge over the Cooper River in South Carolina, US, connecting downtown Charleston to Mount Pleasant. The bridge has a main span of 1,546 feet, the seventh longest among cable-stayed bridges in the Western Hemisphere.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Mount Pleasant and Hampstead Village.

Mount Pleasant

Photo: WolfgangExler, CC BY 3.0.

Mount Pleasant is a large town in the Greater Charleston region of South Carolina. The population of the town has exploded, making it a very popular bedroom community of the city of Charleston.

Hampstead Village

Quarter

Hampstead Village is a neighborhood in Charleston, South Carolina in the US, also known as the Eastside or the East Side. A prominent merchant, Henry Laurens, bought several tracts totaling 99 acres where Hampstead Village is today. Hampstead Village is situated 2½ miles southwest of Scanlonville.

Wraggborough

Quarter

Wraggborough is a neighborhood in downtown Charleston, South Carolina, named after slave trader Joseph Wragg, and noted for its association with the slave trade. Wraggborough is situated 2½ miles southwest of Scanlonville.

Scanlonville

Categories: human settlement, hamlet, and locality
Location: Charleston County, South Carolina, South, United States, North America
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Latitude

32.81184° or 32° 48′ 43″ north

Longitude

-79.89759° or 79° 53′ 51″ west

Elevation

3 feet (1 metre)

Open location code

8742R462+PX

OpenStreetMap ID

node 158626272

OpenStreetMap feature

place=neighbourhood

GeoNames ID

4595141

Wikidata ID

Q122545968

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Highlights include Scanlonville Cemetery and David Simmons Jr. Community Dock.

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