The patriotic theme in the naming of squares and wards continued in the three wards of 1799: Liberty, Columbia, and Greene. The personification of the United States as Columbia had gained currency with the newly established state capital of South Carolina in 1786 and the naming of the District of Columbia in 1791. This ward was the location of one of six town gates built into the palisaded wall erected during the French and Indian Wars to the designs of William G. De Brahm in 1757.
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