Old Exchange and Provost Dungeon
122 E Bay St, Charleston, SC 29401, USA
South Carolina, USA
MUSEUM
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STATE HOUSE
EST. 1771
EST. 1771
1771
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HISTORIC PRESERVATION at Old Exchange and Provost Dungeon.
The original 1771 Exchange Building survives as a restored museum in Charleston. Preserved public rooms, exhibition galleries, architectural fabric, and the vaulted cellar known as the Provost Dungeon interpret the building’s commercial, governmental, military, and civic uses across multiple historical periods.
About Old Exchange and Provost Dungeon
The Exchange was built from 1767–1771 by South Carolina's provincial government, and was used during the 18th century for a variety of civic functions, including as a custom house, public market, public meeting place, and jail. During the American Revolution, confiscated tea was stored here in 1774, and it is where South Carolina's revolutionary leadership councils were held.
HISTORY HAPPENED HERE at Old Exchange and Provost Dungeon
After the British captured the city in 1780, it was used as a barracks, and its basement was used as a military prison. In 2012, a study was completed of the building's use as a British prison during the Revolutionary War. Soon after taking control of Charleston in 1780, the British started housing prisoners in the Exchange, but not exclusively in the "dungeon". The investigation was able to document at least 120 prisoners held in the Exchange, but there were many more whose identities could not be discovered. The facility was not exclusively used for Colonial prisoners, and at least some British soldiers were held there too.
The building housed the South Carolina convention to ratify the United States Constitution in 1788, and was the site of many of the events in George Washington's week-long stay in Charleston. He was greeted by a crowd on the balcony.
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