Mount Pleasant Magazine Nov/Dec 2019

70 www.MPMcalendar.com | www.BestOfMP.com | www.ILoveMountPleasant.com feature that many East Cooper families sold their vegetables downtown at the City Market. Today, Wright sells sweetgrass baskets near the corner of Broad and Meeting Streets where, a century ago, her grandmother sold bouquets of flowers that she grew in her own yard at Six Mile. Black women also sold flowers door to door in the city’s neighborhoods and are depicted in iconic paintings by Elizabeth O’Neill Verner. Other street vendors, called “hucksters,” were known for the various chants they sang as they roamed the streets with their wagons of seafood, vegetables and fruit. With the advent of tourism in the 1920s, many black women began selling sweetgrass baskets along what is now Highway 17. The coastal highway had originally been Highway 40, and U.S. 17 ran further inland through Moncks Corner. Charleston’s former Mayor John P. Grace, was influential in having the highways re-routed, and a toll bridge spanning the Cooper River was built to connect automobile travelers directly with the peninsula. This new continuous route heralded a drive “all the way from Canada to Cuba.” Mount Pleasant’s Mayor T.G. McCants announced the bridge would “enlarge our world” and offer new opportunities for growth in his town. A century later, the Roaring ‘20s have quieted and the 2020 vision sees things quite differently. From here, what will change and what will remain the same? Only time will tell. ACCURATECHIROPRACTIC Drs. Gina & Michael C ourson • Family Holistic Practice ~ Treating All Ages • Many Techniques Including Low Force Instrument Adjusting • Low Level Cold Laser Therapy • Personal Injury & Accidents • Insurance Accepted • Dry Needling • On Vacation? No problem. • Walk-InsWelcome! 2019 ® 19Years in Mount Pleasant Mustpresent coupon.Cannotbe combined.Expires12/31/19 NewPatientsOnly $ 40 3373 S. Morgans Point Rd., Ste. 307 Next to Charleston National Subdivision 426W. Coleman Blvd., Ste. D Near ShemCreek open saturdays TWO LOCATIONS 843.971.8814 www.MtPleasantChiro.com Tolls were collected at the toll house on the Mount Pleasant side of the Cooper River Bridge. Photo courtesy of Charleston County Public Library.