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Charleston's French Quarter is home to many fine historic buildings, among them, the Pink House Tavern, built around 1712, and the Old Slave Mart, built by Z.B. Oakes in 1859. Also in the French Quarter are the Dock Street Theatre, arguably the first site of theatrical productions in the United States, and the French Huguenot Church, a ...
January 30, 1970. July 16, 1978. August 2, 1984. Designated NHLD. October 9, 1960 [ 3] 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 ...
The Arthur Ravenel Jr. Bridge ( colloquially referred to as the Ravenel Bridge and the Cooper River Bridge[ 3]) is a cable-stayed bridge over the Cooper River in South Carolina, US, connecting downtown Charleston to Mount Pleasant. The bridge has a main span of 1,546 feet (471 m), the third longest among cable-stayed bridges in the Western ...
32°47′13″N 79°56′9″W. / 32.78694°N 79.93583°W / 32.78694; -79.93583. Marion Square is greenspace in downtown Charleston, South Carolina, spanning six and one half acres. [ 1][ 2] The square was established as a parade ground for the state arsenal under construction on the north side of the square. It is best known as the ...
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. [ 1][ 2] The city grew wealthy through the export of ...
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 first St. Philip's Church, a wooden building, was built between 1680 and 1681 at the corner of Broad and Meeting streets on the present day site of St. Michael's Episcopal Church. It was damaged in a hurricane in 1710 and a new St. Phillip's Church was begun a few blocks away on Church Street. After being delayed it was finished in 1723.
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