WHITE POINT GARDEN
Site — Charleston, South Carolina
Status: Operating · Access: Open to public
Dossier: https://haunthunt.com/place/white-point-garden-charleston-south-carolina/

The Battery’s garden—where the executions and the shelling are remembered.

White Point Garden is a site in Charleston, South Carolina. The Battery’s garden—where the executions and the shelling are remembered. Its accounts name only a collective — the pirates. The dossier holds 2 reported claims, 1 legend, 1 documented fact and 1 named or described presence — documented record and retelling kept side by side. The site is open to visitors.

White Point Garden is built on the gallows. The park at the tip of the Charleston peninsula — the Battery's green, the promenade between the Ashley and the Cooper — is on the ground where the city hanged its pirates: twenty-nine of Stede Bonnet's crew on November 8, 1718, nineteen of Richard Worley's men later that month, and Bonnet himself on December 10, the 'gentleman pirate' who'd been a Barbados planter before he took up the black flag. The hangings were at the water's edge where the whole harbor could see them — the warning the colony wanted to send, on the shoal that gave the point its name.
The point was the harbor's edge before it was the park — the oyster-shell beach that stayed above the tide, where Broughton's Battery was built in 1737 and where the seawall has been rebuilt every century since. The Confederates put earthworks in the park during the siege; the guns on the Battery faced Fort Sumter across the harbor. The park was made official in 1837, the bandstand and the monuments came after the war, and the cannons on the seawall are the ones the city points at the fort that started the war.
The dead are part of the ground — the oyster shells the point was named for, the gallows site under the lawns, the hangings that happened where the tourists walk. Charleston's pirate trials were the colony's biggest spectacle; the transcripts were published in 1719 as the official record, and the men who died on the point are the reason the place has the name it does.
White Point is the archive's gallows file — the park on the spot where Charleston hanged its pirates, the Battery that guarded the harbor and hosted the executions, the ground that has been a beach, a fort, a gallows, and a garden in three hundred years of the city's tides.

WHY THIS FILE MATTERS
White Point Garden is the archive's execution file — the Battery park built on the ground where Bonnet and his crews were hanged in 1718, the harbor edge that was the city's defense and its gallows, still the promenade over the graves of the pirates.
A gallows point keeps its harbor view — the file's suggestion being that White Point's haunting is the executed men's view: the shoal where they died in sight of the ships, on the point that the city made into its park without moving the dead.

FILED CLAIMS — 2 on record, reported not verified
· [Documented legend] named ghost legend: The pirates are reportedly seen at the point. White Point Garden's file is thin on proof and long on persistence — the standard profile of American place-lore. 'White Point Garden' preserves the telling; the record keeps it filed where it belongs, as lore. The name gives the haunting a face, and the sightings give the name a job.
  source: White Point Garden (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Point_Garden)
· [Anecdotal] apparition: Reported figures in the garden. The site in Charleston, South Carolina gives the account a documented setting: real place, real history, unresolved reports. Witness accounts, no evidence file: the claim is anecdotal and stays that way. Sources including 'White Point Garden' keep the claim in circulation. It is the sighting the place is known for, and it hasn't stopped.
  source: White Point Garden (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Point_Garden)

HISTORY — 1 documented facts
· The 1718 pirate hangings and the battery are documented. White Point Garden's past is on record — the entry belongs to the verified layer beneath whatever lore attaches. The fact is historically verified — the part of the file that doesn't need hedging. Sources including 'White Point Garden' carry the record. Documented ground is what separates this file from pure legend — this is part of it.

SOURCES — 1 cited
· White Point Garden — Wikipedia
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Point_Garden

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