Three generations of Burbage butchers,now on Wappoo Road.

From a slaughterhouse to a butcher shop for Charleston.

Burbage Meats began with W.A. Burbage Jr. and his wife in 1953. From the 1980s, W.A.'s son Marion Burbage ran it until 2017. Over 70 years it has evolved — it started as a wholesale slaughterhouse and meat-packing facility, but it has become so much more.

When sisters Melissa Burbage and Felecia Burbage-Hodges, W.A.'s granddaughters, set out to reinvent it, they wanted to do something amazing for the Charleston community. They're the only female-owned butcher shop in the Charleston area.

It's a rare butcher who knows meat-cutting and has first-hand experience of slaughtering, too. With over 30 years of combined experience, they know the insides and outsides of every animal on the counter.