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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 city of Charleston is the location of 105 of these properties and districts, including 34 of the National Historic Landmarks; they are listed here, while the other properties and districts in the remaining parts of the county are listed separately. Another property in Charleston was once listed but has been removed.
[1] [2] The Charleston Renaissance was related to the larger interwar artistic movement known as the Southern Renaissance and is credited with helping to spur the city's tourist industry. [3] Alice Ravenel Huger Smith, The Rector's Kitchen and View of St. Michael's, watercolor, 1910–15. Alfred Hutty, Magnolia Gardens, oil on canvas, 1920.
Lamboll's Tenements: 8-10 Tradd Street, Charleston 1726 [5] House Christ Church: Mount Pleasant 1726 Church John Cowan House: 50 King Street, Charleston 1729–1730 [6] House Edgar Wells House: 52 King Street, Charleston 1729–1730 [7] House Fairfield Plantation: McClellanville 1730 House Fenwick Hall: Johns Island 1730 House Col. George ...
Industries slowly brought the city and its inhabitants back to a renewed vitality and growth in population. As the city's commerce improved, Charlestonians also worked to restore their community institutions. King Street circa 1910–1920. In 1867, Charleston's first free secondary school for blacks was established, the Avery Institute.
The museum now interprets the history of the city's slave trade. The area behind the building, which once contained the barracoon and kitchen, is now a parking lot. In a 2018 auction, the College of Charleston purchased 47 boxes of documents from the museum's early years for $5,400 (~$6,455 in 2023). [8]
Buc-ee’s, one of the South’s most unique gas stations, could be headed to North Carolina. The chain is known for its record holding stores, 100-gas pump layout and cult following of fans.
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".