Editing Mount Pleasant, South Carolina (section)

===Riverside===
West of Scanlonville is Riverside. During the [[Jim Crow]] years of much of the 20th century, this was known as the largest and oldest of five "black beaches" in Charleston County. It was established when public facilities were [[racial segregation|segregated]] under state law. Riverside officially opened in 1930 and featured a dance pavilion, athletics field, bathhouse, playground, and a boardwalk along the Wando River. Riverside Pavilion was the only venue where black city residents could see African-American musical legends such as [[Duke Ellington]], [[Count Basie]], [[Louis Armstrong]], [[B.B. King]], and [[Ivory Joe Hunter]], who also performed in whites-only venues. Music performances at the Pavilion spawned [[juke joint]]s, or night clubs, in Scanlonville and eventually a hotel called White's Paradise. [[James Brown]] was known to have frequented this hotel.

[[File:Mount Pleasant - South Carolina.jpg|thumb|right|Exploring the marshes]]
After the original park owner died in 1975, operations of the Riverside property were taken over by Charleston County. It eventually sold the property to a real estate company, which developed this area as a private gated community. Public access to the waterfront ended.<ref name="scanlonville">{{cite web|url=https://www.tompsc.com/index.aspx?NID=295|title=Scanlonville|work=Mount Pleasant, SC }}</ref>