Walker, Evans & Cogswell Company

WALKER, EVANS & COGSWELL COMPANY

 

DISTINGUISHED FOR ACHIEVEMENT AS STATIONERS BOOK BINDERS, AND PRINTERS. SINCE ITS FOUNDING IN 1821 BY JOHN C. WALKER APPOINTED LITHOGRAPHERS AND PRINTERS TO THE CONFEDERATE GOVERNMENT IN 1861, THE COMPANY IN THIS BUILDING PRODUCED STAMPS, BANK NOTES, BONDS, CERTIFICATES OF STOCK EXECUTIVE DOCUMENTS, MEDICAL PUBLICATIONS, AND MILITARY MANUALS UNTIL 1863. STOCK AND MACHINERY THEN WERE REMOVED FOR SAFETY TO COLUMBIA AND WERE DESTROYED WHEN COLUMBIA WAS BURNED IN 1865. AFTER THE WAR BUSINESS WAS RESUMED IN CHARLESTON, AND HAS CONTINUED WITHOUT INTERRUPTION TO THE PRESENT TIME.

1953

 

APPROVED BY THE HISTORICAL COMMISSION OF CHARLESTON, S.C.

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