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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 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.
Joyful Blacks receive colored troops (with white officers) singing "John Brown's Body" as they led the U.S. Army into Charleston, South Carolina, in 1865. Charleston Harbor was also the site of the first successful submarine attack in history on February 17, 1864, when the H.L. Hunley made a night attack on the USS Housatonic. [8]
The South Carolina Historical Society is a private, non-profit organization founded in 1855 to preserve South Carolina's rich historical legacy. The SCHS is the state's oldest and largest private repository of books, letters, journals, maps, drawings, and photographs about South Carolina's history .
"Charleston". South Carolina Encyclopedia. University of South Carolina. "South Carolina Room". Charleston County Public Library. Archived from the original on 2017-03-21 (Local history) "Charleston Archive". Charleston County Public Library. Archived from the original on February 15, 2009. (Blog)
Fireproof Building houses the South Carolina Historical Society, which offers a rotating series of historical displays. Fort Sumter, the site of the first shots fired in the Civil War, is located in Charleston Harbor. The National Park Service maintains a visitor center for Fort Sumter at Liberty Square (near the South Carolina Aquarium), and ...
Charleston, South Carolina: The History Press, 2014. ISBN 978-1625850249. Hearn, Chester G. Gray Raiders of the Sea: How Eight Confederate Warships Destroyed the Union's High Seas Commerce. Camden, Maine: International Marine Publishing, 1992. Hoyt, Edwin P. The Voyage of the Hunley: The Chronicle of the Pathbreaking Confederate Submarine ...
Sons of Privilege: The Charleston Light Dragoons in the Civil War. University of South Carolina Press. Latzko, D. A. (2015). Mapping The Short-Run Impact Of The Civil War And Emancipation On The South Carolina Economy. The South Carolina Historical Magazine, 116(4), 258–279. Lucas, M. B. (1976). Sherman and the Burning of Columbia (1st ...