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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.
Waterfront Park is an eight-acre (5 ha) park along approximately one-half mile of the Cooper River in Charleston, South Carolina. The park received the 2007 Landmark Award from the American Society of Landscape Architects and the National Trust for Historic Preservation. This award "recognizes a distinguished landscape architecture project ...
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 ...
Hilton Head Island - Snow Island; Irmo. Home of the Okra Strut [19] Gateway to Lake Murray [20] Lancaster – The Red Rose City [21] Myrtle Beach – Golf Capital of the World [22] North Augusta – South Carolina's Riverfront [23] Orangeburg – The Garden City [24] Pageland – The Watermelon Capital of the World [25] Rock Hill – The ...
Hilton Head Island, often referred to as simply Hilton Head, is a Lowcountry resort town and barrier island in Beaufort County, South Carolina, United States. [8] It is 20 miles (32 km) northeast of Savannah, Georgia (as the crow flies), and 95 miles (153 km) southwest of Charleston .
The South Carolina Ports Authority (SCPA) is investing hundreds of millions [21] of dollars into the Port of Charleston and constructing a new port terminal. [22] In 2011, state senator Hugh Leatherman was responsible for securing $300 million in state funding for the deepening of Charleston Harbor . [ 23 ]
The Battery is a landmark defensive seawall and promenade in Charleston, South Carolina. Named for a pre–Civil War coastal defense artillery battery originally built by the British at the site, it stretches along the lower shores of the Charleston peninsula, bordered by the Ashley and Cooper Rivers, which meet here to form Charleston Harbor.
The system was originally chartered in 1854 as the Charleston and Savannah Railroad.The C&S RR established and operated a 120-mile (190 km) 5 ft (1,524 mm) [1] gauge rail line from Charleston, South Carolina, to Savannah, Georgia, connecting two of the most important port cities in the antebellum southeastern United States.