Francis silas rogers biography
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Wentworth Street
Posted in Diary of a Charleston Tour Guide
The Rodgers Mansion is right down the street and around the corner from the Mikell House that we visited last week.
Francis silas rogers biography
Built at a time when money was scarce in the south and most Charlestonians had embraced the "too poor to paint and too proud to whitewash" reality of life here, Francis Silas Rodgers gave Charleston one of its grandest homes.
Frank Rodgers was born in Charleston in and went into the cotton factoring business with his father.
A factor was simply a broker or middleman; most cotton planters used cotton factors located in major ports like Charleston to sell their exports. Even after the Civil War, sea island cotton was a viable export in the South until the early part of the twentieth century when the boll weevil came along.
Rodgers was able to weather most of the economic problems facing the South after the Civil War.
Though Charleston and the surrounding area was economically devastated, some Low