James Island, South Carolina

is a in , , .

It is located in the central and southern parts of .

is included within the Charleston-North Charleston-Summerville area and the Charleston-North Charleston Urbanized Area.

Here at on , 1782, Tadeusz Kościuszko, of the , led the last known armed of the against the and was nearly killed.

Later, The named Kosciuszko Brigadier General for his service in both the North, including his tremendous assistance to General Gates at The Battle of Saratoga and brilliant efforts assisting General Greene in saving the South Army from Cornwallis forces and ultimately severely weakening the under command of Cornwallis.

In the American Civil , the Battle of Secessionville was fought on .

Long settled as a semi-rural area, this has been affected by increasing urbanization and the expansion of the of Charleston.

Island residents incorporated the of on , 1993.

was elected as the first in March 1993.

A was filed by the of Charleston claiming that the parts of the new were not contiguous, being separated by marsh that it had already incorporated.

The of Charleston prevailed at Circuit Court and the appealed.

The Supreme Court ruled against the in 1997.

The changed incorporation to allow incorporation over already annexed marsh.

The of was incorporated a second time in 2002. was elected .

The of Charleston challenged the again, this time arguing that the new incorporation was unconstitutional special legislation.

The of Charleston prevailed in Circuit Court and the of appealed.

The Supreme Court ruled that the singling out “ marsh” was irrational, the legislation was ruled unconstitutional and the was closed for a second time.

changed the laws affecting incorporation, effective on July 1, 2005.

A third attempt to become a was successful in June 2006, when about 3,000 voted to incorporate.

The day after the vote, Charleston Joseph P. Riley, Jr. filed a against the for the third time, saying that it was unconstitutional.

was elected of the for the third time in August 2006.

On November 7, 2008 the of Charleston lost its against the of in Circuit Court.

In an election on August 3, 2010, incumbent Clark lost to Bill Woolsey, an economics professor at The Citadel and member of the Council from 2002 to 2004.

The Supreme Court ruled against the of in June 2011.

It ruled that the incorporation used by the was constitutional, but that approximately 25% of the was not contiguous.

Rather than remove that portion of the , it ordered the closed.

The was incorporated a fourth time after a referendum on April 24, 2012.

The of Charleston determined that it could not successfully challenge the by May and the deadline for a challenge passed on July 17.

Former Bill Woolsey led the incorporation effort and was unopposed in the election held on July 31, 2012.

He was subsequently re-elected on July 29, 2014 for a second term and again on November 5, 2019 for a third term.

The limits have never incorporated the entire island of , as the of Charleston has annexed on before the original incorporation of the and between subsequent re-incorporations.

There were approximately 18,000 residents in what were the boundaries and approximately 20,000 in Charleston's limits as of the 2010 US Census.

The currently includes a population of 11,500.

Approximately 6,000 residents remain in unincorporated , and 20,000 in the of Charleston.

is the home of many historical events and areas.

McLeod Plantation, a former Island cotton plantation, was sold in 2011 by Historic Charleston Foundation to the Parks and Recreation .

Fort Johnson is reported to be the site of the first shot of the Civil .

The remains of Fort Lamar are nearby. Recent renovations of historical places include the Seashore Farmer's Lodge on Sol Legare .

The Fort Johnson/Powder , Fort Pemberton, Lighthouse Point Shell Ring (38CH12), Marshlands Plantation House, Seashore Farmers' Lodge No. 767, and Unnamed Battery No. 1 are listed on the .

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