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The City Market is a historic market complex in downtown Charleston, South Carolina.Established in the 1790s, the market stretches for four city blocks from the architecturally-significant Market Hall, which faces Meeting Street, through a continuous series of one-story market sheds, the last of which terminates at East Bay Street.
The History of a Southern City (Reprint ed.). Charleston, SC: University of South Carolina Press. ISBN 978-0872497979. Gestler, Diana Hollingsworth (2013). Very Charleston: A Celebration of History, Culture, and Lowcountry Charm. Chapel Hill, NC: Angonquin Books. ISBN 978-1565123397. Hamer, Fritz (1997). "Giving a Sense of Achievement: Changing ...
September 12, 1994 (Roughly along the Ashley River from just east of South Carolina Highway 165 to the Seaboard Coast Line railroad bridge: West Ashley: Extends into other parts of Charleston and into Dorchester counties; boundary increase (listed October 22, 2010): Northwest of Charleston between the northeast bank of the Ashley River and the Ashley-Stono Canal and east of Delmar Highway ...
Sports venues in Charleston, South Carolina (1 C, 12 P) Pages in category "Buildings and structures in Charleston, South Carolina" The following 60 pages are in this category, out of 60 total.
Charleston is the most populous city in the U.S. state of South Carolina. The city lies just south of the geographical midpoint of South Carolina's coastline on Charleston Harbor, an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean formed by the confluence of the Ashley, Cooper, and Wando rivers. Charleston had a population of 150,227 at the 2020 census. [6]
1849 – South Carolina Institute for the Promotion of Art, Mechanical Ingenuity, and Industry organized; annual Fair begins. [35] [36] 1850 Magnolia Cemetery built. Roper Hospital established. [37] Population: 42,985. [20] 1852 – Museum founded by the College of Charleston. [15] Sketches made in Charleston, South Carolina by artist Eyre ...
The French Quarter is within the original "walled" city of Charleston. [2] [3] The area began being called the French Quarter in 1973 when preservation efforts began for warehouse buildings on the Lodge Alley block. The name recognizes the high concentration of French merchants in the area's history.
The city bought the building and began using it as Charleston's City Hall in 1819, making it the second longest serving city hall in the United States (second only to New York City's). The site of City Hall was a beef market in 1739, but the market was destroyed in a fire in 1796, and the corner parcel was conveyed to the Charleston branch of ...