The Commissioners of Public Works, of Charleston, SC, approved the purchase of these very fine meter boxes from the Ford Meter Box Company in Wabash, IN.

Not sure about the logistics behind it.  Probably something like….  Rutledge, and Ashley Calhoun, two brothers serving on the Commission of Public Works had a couple of distant cousins up north.  They were the Fords, Bert and Joe, from Wabash, Indiana.  Well, you see how the rest of it works.  How else do meter boxes from Wabash end up in Charleston?  Who’s your little Hoosier?  Who’s  your turtle dove?