Lunch & Learn: Lushington Lost and Found

You bring your lunch and we’ll provide the learning!

Join George H. McDaniel, historian at SC Battleground Preservation Trust, as he discusses the significance of Richard Lushington to Charleston and South Carolina’s history. He will explore Lushington’s Quakerism, his connections to Jewish history through his unique militia unit, and the world of Revolutionary Charles Town which brought them all together.

McDaniel will also detail the story of detective work which led him to Savannah where he located the long-lost portraits of Lushington and his wife Charity. Those portraits have now come home to Charleston and are on display at the Charleston Library Society just about 100 yards from the site of the Quaker Cemetery where Lushington was most likely buried.