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Charleston, South Carolina. / 32.78333°N 79.93194°W / 32.78333; -79.93194. Charleston is the most populous city in the U.S. state of South Carolina, the county seat of Charleston County, [ 9] and the principal city in the Charleston metropolitan area. [ b] The city lies just south of the geographical midpoint of South Carolina's ...
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.
1699 - Hurricane and epidemic. [2] 1708 – African slaves comprise majority of population in the colony; blacks make up majority of population in the city and state until the early 20th century. 1719 – Charles Town renamed "Charlestown" (approximate date). [2] 1729 – St. Andrew's Society founded.
Charleston Southern University, founded in 1969, is a liberal arts university, and is affiliated with the South Carolina Baptist Convention. Charleston Southern (CSU) is on 300 acres, formerly the site of a rice and indigo plantation, in the city of North Charleston one of South Carolina's largest accredited, independent universities, enrolling ...
October 9, 1960. 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 ...
The Charleston City Hall is a building designed by Gabriel Manigault. [1] 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 ...
Charleston County is located in the U.S. state of South Carolina along the Atlantic coast. As of the 2020 census , the population was 408,235, [ 1 ] making it the third-most populous county in South Carolina (behind Greenville and Richland counties).
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 ...