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The city of Charleston has been plagued by numerous fires, but perhaps none as damaging as the fire of 1861 that was started at Ruzel & Co's. Sash Company at the foot of Hazel Street. The fire was caused by arson; numerous reports site the insurrection and incendiarism of treacherous, freed-negroes as the cause of the death and destruction . General Sherman also did considerable damage to Middleton Place Plantation on his devasting march from Atlanta to the sea, as did a massive earthquake of 1886.

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