However, in 1741 he went to London to secure credit and goods and returned to Georgetown to trade on his own. He first sold goods on commission at a store in Georgetown for Joseph Wragg from Charleston.

was a minor when his father died, leaving him a town house in Charleston. The Trapiers settled circa 1695 on the French Santee in Berkeley County. (1716-1793) was the son of Paul Trapier and Elizabeth DuGué, whose French Huguenot families were among the earliest colonists of Carolina. This is the story, and these were the owners: I have included research performed by the Museum’s Dave Gorman, and have taken it further, tying the Kaminski house and property and its owners to the larger history of the region. Working with the scant documentation that exists and considering I haven’t access to city directors or county or city records, due to the coronavirus closings, I’ve done what I can.

So I did a deep dive into the human history of the property to see what we could learn. Who were they? That is what I wanted to know.

Many people owned the house over the decades before Harold and Julia Kaminski purchased the property in 1931. purchased one lot in 1758, another in 1759, and added a third lot to the property in 1767. The original lands date back to the early founding of George Town, two lots on the Sampit River that were first owned separately by outside investors. The fascinating thing about the Kaminski House Museum is that on its grounds is encompassed an entire history of Georgetown. The Human History of the Kaminski House: The Owners

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