{"id":263,"date":"2013-07-10T21:29:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-10T21:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/?p=263"},"modified":"2013-07-10T21:29:00","modified_gmt":"2013-07-10T21:29:00","slug":"good-book-a-history-of-charlestons-hampton-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/good-book-a-history-of-charlestons-hampton-park\/","title":{"rendered":"GOOD Book: A History of Charleston&#8217;s Hampton Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/12oMLXo\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\" target=\"_new\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"200\" src=\"http:\/\/ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51ogtoZgBbL._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-click,TopRight,35,-76_AA300_SH20_OU01_.jpg\" width=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Charleston&#8217;s Hampton Park is a wonderful greenspace on peninsular Charleston with a amazing history.<\/p>\n<p>Over the years, Hampton Park has been plantation, a horse race course, a prisoner of war camp and Civil War cemetery, as well as the location for a trade exposition at the turn of the 20th Century and a zoo until 1975.<\/p>\n<p>If you would like to learn more about this Charleston landmark, we highly recommend Kevin Eberle&#8217;s <i><b>A History of Charleston&#8217;s Hampton Park<\/b>.<\/i> <\/p>\n<p>The Charleston City Paper published a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.charlestoncitypaper.com\/charleston\/hampton-park-was-once-home-to-bison-otter-and-even-a-lion\/Content?oid=4569740\" target=\"_new\">nice review back in February<\/a> and the book is <a href=\"http:\/\/catalog.ccpl.org\/client\/default\/search\/detailnonmodal\/ent:$002f$002fSD_ILS$002f534$002fSD_ILS:534166\/one?qu=History+of+Charleston%27s+Hampton+Park&amp;te=ILS&amp;rt=TITLE%7C%7C%7CTitle%7C%7C%7Cfalse\" target=\"_new\">available at our local library<\/a> (of course!!) as well as at <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/12oMLXo\" target=\"_blank\">Amazon.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.charlestoncitypaper.com\/imager\/the-charleston-zoo-where-deer-and-ducks-live-in-harmony\/b\/big\/4569741\/4b7e\/zoomag.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"170\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.charlestoncitypaper.com\/imager\/the-charleston-zoo-where-deer-and-ducks-live-in-harmony\/b\/big\/4569741\/4b7e\/zoomag.jpg\" width=\"320\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 320px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 320\/170;\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">Image credit:                    Courtesy of Sara Gouldon and Charleston City Paper<\/span><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charleston&#8217;s Hampton Park is a wonderful greenspace on peninsular Charleston with a amazing history. Over the years, Hampton Park has been plantation,<\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a class=\"myButt \" href=\"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/good-book-a-history-of-charlestons-hampton-park\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1600,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1600"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}