Some History on Chicora Park, aka the Officer’s Housing Historic District at the Navy Yard.
. Plat of Chicora Park, the design of Frederick Law Olmstead The neighborhood where the Officer’s Quarters are located in beautiful rolling high land unusual for the Lowcountry. In 1895, the City of Charleston Board of Park Commissioners purchased nearly 600 acres of Retreat Plantation bordering the Cooper River some four miles north of the …