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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 ...
The history of Charleston, South Carolina, is one of the longest and most diverse of any community in the United States, spanning hundreds of years of physical settlement beginning in 1670. Charleston was one of leading cities in the South from the colonial era to the Civil War in the 1860s.
Philip's Episcopal Church, the first congregation in Charleston, whose current building dates to 1835, is also in the French Quarter. St. St. Philip's graveyard is the final resting place of Edward Rutledge , the youngest signer of the Declaration of Independence , and U.S. Senator and Vice President John C. Calhoun , whose body was exhumed ...
William Aiken House and Associated Railroad Structures, Charleston County (456 King St., Charleston), including 13 photos, at South Carolina Department of Archives and History; All of the following Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) records are filed under Charleston, Charleston County, SC:
The Charleston Historic District, alternatively known as Charleston Old and Historic District, is a National Historic Landmark District in Charleston, South Carolina. [2] [4] The district, which covers most of the historic peninsular heart of the city, contains an unparalleled collection of 18th and 19th-century architecture, including many distinctive Charleston "single houses".
The Governor John Rutledge House is a historic house at 116 Broad Street in Charleston, South Carolina. Completed in 1763 by an unknown architect, it was the home of Founding Father John Rutledge, a Governor of South Carolina and a signer of the United States Constitution. [3] It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1973. [2] [4]
The downtown Charleston waterfront on the Battery. 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.
The Colonel John Stuart House is a historic house at 104-106 Tradd Street in Charleston, South Carolina.Built in 1772, four years before the American Revolution, it is the city's oldest known example of a side-hall plan house.