This Building

Erected in the post-Revolutionary

period on a part of the land once

known as Archdale's Square, was

occupied the Charleston branch of

the First Bank of the United States

prior to 1800. Acquired in 1833

by the Hebrew Orphan Society, it

served as the society's hall. Also

for a time as the meeting place of

the K.K. Beth Elohim Congregation,

and during a later period as the

Hebrew Orphanage.

Marker is on Broad Street 0.1 miles west of Meeting Street, on the left when traveling east.

Courtesy hmdb.org

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