QUEEN’S INFAMOUS BLIND TIGER Built in 1866 as a tenement building, the Wagner-Trott Building at 30 State Street became home to many working class families, including young Irish immigrant and grocer Jeremiah O’Brien. In the late 1890s, O’Brien operated a saloon on the first floor that newspapers of the time referred to as one of city’s most notorious “blind tigers” and was constantly raided by police for whiskey and beer. Between 1922 and 1928, the first-floor again served as

Along .13-mile strip between Elijah Creek and King Flats Creek located off Sol Legare Road in James Island lies the nation’s newest historic district: Mosquito Beach. Between the 1940s and 1970s, the Mosquito Beach strip served as a social epicenter for the Black community west of the Ashley River and was home to a collection of “juke joints,” dance pavilions, restaurants, hotel and a boardwalk where hundreds would gather between Easter to Labor Day. Mosquito Beach, named for