Charleston, South Carolina
Charleston, South Carolina City of Charleston Flag of Charleston, South Carolina Flag Official seal of Charleston, South Carolina Charleston is positioned in South Carolina Charleston - Charleston Counties Charleston Waterfront Park overlooks Charleston Harbor and offers views of Fort Sumter and the Ravenel Bridge Charleston is the earliest and second-largest town/city in the U.S.
State of South Carolina, the governmental center of county of Charleston County, and the principal town/city in the Charleston North Charleston Summerville Metropolitan Statistical Area. The town/city lies just south of the geographical midpoint of South Carolina's coastline and is positioned on Charleston Harbor, an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean formed by the confluence of the Ashley and Cooper Rivers.
Charleston had an estimated populace of 132,609 in 2015. The populace of the Charleston urbane area, comprising Berkeley, Charleston, and Dorchester Counties, was counted by the 2015 estimate at 727,689 the third-largest in the state and the 78th-largest urbane statistical region in the United States.
Charleston was established as Charles Town honoring King Charles II of England in 1670.
Endemic bouts of yellow fever and malaria influenced the removal of the state government to Columbia in 1788, although the port remained among the 10 biggest cities in the United States through the 1840 census. The only primary American town/city to have a majority-enslaved population, Antebellum Charleston was controlled by a militarized oligarchy of white planters and merchants who successfully forced the federal government to revise its 1828 and 1832 tariffs amid the Nullification Crisis and launched the Civil War by seizing the Arsenal, Castle Pinckney, and Fort Sumter from their federal garrisons.
Known for its rich history, well-preserved architecture, distinguished restaurants, and mannerly citizens , Charleston is a prominent tourist destination and has received a large number of accolades, including "America's Most Friendly [City]" by Travel + Leisure in 2011 and in 2013 and 2014 by Conde Nast Traveler, and also "the most polite and hospitable town/city in America" by Southern Living magazine. In 2016, Charleston was ranked the "World's Best City" by Travel + Leisure. 8.4 Charleston Area Regional Transportation Authority Map showing the primary rivers of Charleston and the Charleston Harbor watershed The present town/city has a total region of 127.5 square miles (330.2 km2), of which 109.0 square miles (282.2 km2) is territory and 18.5 square miles (47.9 km2) is veiled by water. North Charleston blocks any expansion up the peninsula, and Mount Pleasant is situated in the territory directly east of the Cooper River.
Climate data for Charleston Int'l, South Carolina (1981 2010 normals, extremes 1938 present) Climate data for Charleston, South Carolina (Downtown), 1981 2010 normals, extremes 1893 present The Charleston North Charleston Summerville Metropolitan Travel Destination consists of three counties: Charleston, Berkeley, and Dorchester.
North Charleston is the second-largest town/city in the Charleston North Charleston Summerville Metropolitan Travel Destination and rates as the third-largest town/city in the state; Mount Pleasant and Summerville are the next-largest cities.
These metros/cities combined with other incorporated and unincorporated areas along with the town/city of Charleston form the Charleston-North Charleston Urban Area with a populace of 548,404 as of 2010. The urbane statistical region also includes a separate and much lesser urban region inside Berkeley County, Moncks Corner (with a 2000 populace of 9,123).
When the town/city of Charleston was formed, it was defined by the limits of the Parish of St.
The Pink House, the earliest contemporary building in Charleston, was assembled of Bermudian limestone at 17 Chalmers Street, some time between 1694 and 1712 Main articles: History of Charleston, South Carolina and Timeline of Charleston, South Carolina In 1670, Governor William Sayle brought over a several shiploads of pioneer from Bermuda, which lies due east of Charleston although closer to Cape Hatteras in North Carolina.
These pioneer established Charles Town at Albemarle Point on the west bank of the Ashley River a several miles northwest of the present-day town/city center. Charles Town became English-speaking America's first comprehensively prepared town with governance, settlement, and evolution were to follow a visionary plan known as the Grand Model prepared for the Lords Proprietors by John Locke. Because the Carolina's Fundamental Constitutions was never ratified, however, Charles Town was never incorporated amid the colonial period, with the British Crown disallowing the one attempt to do so in the 1720s. Instead, small-town ordinances were passed by the provincial government, with day-to-day administration handled by the wardens and vestries of St Philip's and St Michael's Anglican churches. The new town was the 5th-largest in North America by 1690. On Carolina's southern coast, transit between the early communities by river and sea was so convenient that Charleston was the only court needed until the late 1750s, but difficulty in transport and communications with the north meant its pioneer were effectively autonomous of Charles Town as late as the governorship of Philip Ludwell; even then, the north was controlled through an appointed deputy governor.
Herman Moll's 1733 Town and Harbour of Charles Town in South Carolina, showing the town's defensive walls.
Protestant French, Scottish, Irish, and Germans immigrated, as did hundreds of Jews, predominately Sephardi. As late as 1830, Charleston continued to home the biggest and wealthiest Jewish improve in America. Because of the struggles of the English Reformation and especially because the papacy long recognized James II's son as the rightful king of England, Scotland, and Ireland, openly practicing Roman Catholics were prohibited from settling in South Carolina throughout the colonial period.
With no official monument marking this part , the writer Toni Morrison organized a privately funded commemorative bench. The Bakongo, Mbundu, Wolof, Mende, and Malinke citizens s formed the biggest groups. Free citizens of color also appeared from the West Indies, where wealthy caucasians took black consorts and color lines were (especially early on) looser among the working class. South Carolina continued to have a black majority until after the Great Migration of the early 20th century.
From 1680 to 1720, approximately 40,000 native men, women, and kids were sold through the port, principally to the West Indies but also to Boston and other metros/cities in British North America. The Lowcountry planters did not keep these slaves themselves, considering them too apt to escape or revolt, and instead used the proceeds of their sale to purchase black African slaves for their own plantations. The slaveraiding and the European firearms it introduced helped destabilize Spanish Florida and French Louisiana in the 1700s amid the War of the Spanish Succession but also provoked the Yamasee War of the 1710s that nearly finished the colony, after which the practice was largely abandoned. Even with the decade-long moratorium, its customs processed around 40% of the African slaves brought to North America between 1700 and 1775. The plantations and the economy based on them made it the wealthiest town/city in British North America and the biggest south of Philadelphia.
Moultrie's militia regiment on June 28, 1776; this was the British Royal Navy's first defeat in a century. The Liberty Flag used by Moultrie's men formed the basis of the later South Carolina flag, and the victory's anniversary continues to be memorialized as Carolina Day.
From the summer of 1782, French planters fleeing the Haitian Revolution began arriving in the port with their slaves. The primary outbreak of yellow fever that occurred in Philadelphia the next year probably spread there from an epidemic these refugees brought to Charleston, although it was not publicly reported at the time.
The spelling Charleston was adopted in 1783 as part of the city's formal incorporation. Although Columbia replaced it as the state capital in 1788, Charleston became even more prosperous as Eli Whitney's 1793 invention of the cotton gin sped the refining of the crop over 50 times.
Britain's Industrial Revolution initially assembled upon its textile trade took up the extra manufacturing ravenously and it was swiftly Charleston's primary export commodity.
Branches of the First and Second Bank of the United States were also positioned in Charleston in 1800 and 1817.
Throughout the Antebellum Period, Charleston continued to be the only primary American town/city with a majority slave population. The city's commitment to standardized was the major focus of writers and visitors: a merchant from Liverpool noted in 1834 that "almost all the working populace are Negroes, all the servants, the carmen & porters, all the citizens who see at the stalls in Market, and most of the Journeymen in trades". American traders had been prohibited from equipping the Atlantic slave trade in 1794 and all importation of slaves was banned in 1808, but American ships long refused to permit British inspection and smuggling remained common.
The 19th century saw the city's first dedicated slave markets, mostly near Chalmers & State Streets. Slave-ownership was the major marker of class and even the town's freedmen and other citizens of color typically kept slaves if they had the richness to do so. Visitors generally remarked on the sheer number of blacks in Charleston and their seeming freedom of movement, though in fact mindful of the Stono Rebellion and the violent slave revolution that established Haiti the caucasians closely regulated the behavior of both slaves and no-charge citizens of color.
4,376 black Methodists joined Morris Brown in establishing Hampstead Church, the African Methodist Episcopal church now known as Mother Emanuel. State and town/city laws prohibited black literacy, limited black worship to daylight hours, and required that a majority of any church's churchioners be white.
Organized a militia for regular patrols, initiated a secret and extrajudicial tribunal to investigate, and hanged 35 and exiled 35 or 37 slaves to Spanish Cuba for their involvement. In a sign of Charleston's antipathy to abolitionists, a white co-conspirator pled for leniency from the court on the grounds that his involvement had been persuaded only by greed and not by any compassion with the slaves' cause. Governor Thomas Bennett Jr.
Hamilton was able to successfully campaign for more restrictions on both no-charge and enslaved blacks: South Carolina required no-charge black sailors to be imprisoned while their ships were in Charleston Harbor though global treaties eventually required the United States to quash the practice; no-charge blacks were banned from returning to the state if they left for any reason; slaves were given a 9:15 pm curfew; the town/city razed Hampstead Church to the ground and erected a new arsenal which later formed the Citadel's first campus.
Soon, federal soldiers were dispensed to Charleston's forts, and five United States Coast Guard cutters were detached to Charleston Harbor "to take possession of any vessel arriving from a foreign port, and defend her against any attempt to dispossess the Customs Officers of her custody until all the requirements of law have been complied with." Most famously, Charleston's Trinity Church was burned.
The slave trade also depended on the port of Charleston, where ships could be unloaded and the slaves bought and sold.
Many slaves were transported in the coastwise slave trade, with slave ships stopping at ports such as Charleston.
Main article: Charleston in the American Civil War The ruins of Charleston in 1865, following primary fires in 1861 and at the evacuation of the Confederates.
On December 27, Castle Pinckney was surrendered by its garrison to the state militia and, on January 9, 1861, Citadel cadets opened fire on the USS Star of the West as it entered Charleston Harbor.
The first full battle of the American Civil War occurred on April 12, 1861 when shore batteries under the command of General Beauregard opened fire on the US Army-held Fort Sumter in Charleston harbor. After a 34-hour bombardment, Major Robert Anderson surrendered the fort.
Over the course of the war, some blockade runners got through but not a single one made it into or out of the Charleston Harbor between August 1863 and March 1864. The early submarine H.L.
After the defeat of the Confederacy, federal forces remained in Charleston amid Reconstruction.
They purchased dogs, guns, liquor, and better clothes all previously banned and ceased yielding the sidewalks to whites. Even with the accomplishments of the state council to halt manumissions, Charleston had already had a large class of no-charge citizens of color as well.
In 1865, the Avery Normal Institute was established by the American Missionary Association as the first no-charge secondary school for Charleston's African American population.
In 1875, blacks made up 57% of the city's and 73% of the county's population. With leadership by members of the antebellum no-charge black community, historian Melinda Meeks Hennessy described the improve as "unique" in being able to defend themselves without provoking "massive white retaliation", as occurred in various other areas amid Reconstruction. In the 1876 election cycle, two primary riots between black Republicans and white Democrats occurred in the city, in September and the day after the election in November, as well as a violent incident in Cainhoy at an October joint discussion meeting. Violent incidents took place in Charleston on King Street in September 6 and in close-by Cainhoy on October 15, both in association with political meetings before the 1876 election.
Another brawl occurred in Charleston the day after the election, when a prominent Republican prestige was mistakenly reported killed. On August 31, 1886, Charleston was nearly finished by an earthquake.
It damaged 2,000 buildings in Charleston and caused $6 million worth of damage ($133 million in 2006 dollars), at a time when all the city's buildings were valued around $24 million ($531 million in 2006 dollars).
Charleston's tourism boom began in earnest following the printed announcement of Albert Simons and Samuel Lapham's Architecture of Charleston in the 1920s. A Charleston street Charleston languished economically for a several decades in the 20th century, though the large federal military existence in the region helped to shore up the city's economy.
The Charleston Hospital Strike of 1969, in which mostly black workers protested discrimination and low wages, was one of the last primary affairs of the civil rights movement.
The eye of Hurricane Hugo came ashore at Charleston Harbor in 1989, and though the worst damage was in close-by Mc - Clellanville, three-quarters of the homes in Charleston's historic precinct sustained damage of varying degrees.
A memorial service on the ground of the College of Charleston was attended by President Barack Obama, Michelle Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, Jill Biden, and Speaker of the House John Boehner.
This combination of low pressure and tropical moisture caused extensive rain, tidal flows and flooding in the Greater Charleston Area.
In 2010, the ethnic makeup of Charleston was 70.2% White, 25.4% African American, 1.6% Asian, and 1.5% of two or more competitions; in addition, 2.9% of the populace was Hispanic or Latino, of any race. Given Charleston's high concentration of African Americans who spoke the Gullah language, a creole language that advanced on the Sea Islands and in the Low Country, the small-town speech patterns were also influenced by this community.
The traditional Charleston accent has long been noted in the state and throughout the South.
Sylvester Primer of the College of Charleston wrote about aspects of the small-town dialect in his late 19th-century works: "Charleston Provincialisms" (1887) and "The Huguenot Element in Charleston's Provincialisms", presented in a German journal.
The quickly disappearing "Charleston accent" is still noted in the small-town pronunciation of the city's name.
Charleston is known as "The Holy City", perhaps because churches are prominent on the low-rise cityscape or because South Carolina was among the several initial colonies to tolerate all Christian Protestant denominations (though not Roman Catholicism). The Anglican church was dominant in the colonial era, and the Cathedral of St.
Many French Huguenot refugees settled in Charleston in the early 18th century. The Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church is the earliest African Methodist Episcopal church in the Southern United States and homes the earliest black congregation south of Baltimore, Maryland. The city's earliest Roman Catholic church, Saint Mary of the Annunciation Roman Catholic Church, is the mother church of Roman Catholicism in North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia.
In 1820, Charleston was established as the see town/city of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Charleston, which at the time comprised the Carolinas and Georgia and presently encompasses the state of South Carolina.
Charleston is known for its unique culture, which blends traditional Southern U.S., English, French, and West African elements.
Charleston's earliest improve theater group, the Footlight Players, has provided theatrical productions since 1931.
Charleston is known for its small-town seafood, which plays a major part in the city's famous cuisine, comprising staple dishes such as gumbo, she-crab soup, fried oysters, Lowcountry boil, deviled crab cakes, red rice, and shrimp and grits.
The cuisine in Charleston is also firmly influenced by British and French elements.
Charleston annually hosts Spoleto Festival USA established by Gian Carlo Menotti, a 17-day art festival featuring over 100 performances by individual artists in a range of disciplines.
Other celebrations and affairs include Historic Charleston Foundation's Festival of Houses and Gardens and Charleston Antiques Show, the Taste of Charleston, The Lowcountry Oyster Festival, the Cooper River Bridge Run, The Charleston Marathon, Southeastern Wildlife Exposition (SEWE), Charleston Food and Wine Festival, Charleston Fashion Week, the MOJA Arts Festival, and the Holiday Festival of Lights (at James Island County Park), and the Charleston International Film Festival. The Charleston Conference is a primary library trade event, held in the town/city center since 1980. Main article: Music in Charleston As it has on every aspect of Charleston culture, the Gullah improve has had a tremendous influence on music in Charleston, especially when it comes to the early evolution of jazz music.
The geechee dances that accompanied the music of the dock workers in Charleston followed a rhythm that inspired Eubie Blake's "Charleston Rag" and later James P.
The story was based in Charleston and featured the Gullah community.
To this day, Charleston is home to many musicians in all genres.
Charleston has a vibrant theater scene and is home to America's first theater.
In 2010, Charleston was listed as one of the country's top 10 metros/cities for theater, and one of the top two in the South. Most of the theaters are part of the League of Charleston Theatres, better known as Theatre Charleston. Some of the city's theaters include: The Dock Street Theatre, opened in the 1930s on the site of America's first purpose-built theater building, is home of the Charleston Stage Company, South Carolina's biggest experienced theater company.
See also: Charleston Historic District Charleston has many historic buildings, art and historical exhibitions, and other attractions, including: The Charleston Museum, America's first exhibition, was established in 1773.
Its mission is to preserve and interpret the cultural and natural history of Charleston and the South Carolina Low Country.
The Gibbes Museum of Art, opened in 1905, homes a premier compilation of principally American works with a Charleston or Southern connection.
It is owned by the Historic Charleston Foundation and open to the enhance as a home exhibition.
The Heyward-Washington House is a historic home exhibition owned and directed by the Charleston Museum.
The Joseph Manigault House is a historic home exhibition owned and directed by the Charleston Museum.
The Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture was established to collect, preserve, and make enhance the unique historical and cultural tradition of African Americans in Charleston and the South Carolina Low Country.
Fort Sumter, site of the first shots fired in the Civil War, is positioned in Charleston Harbor.
Pineapple Fountain- Located in Charleston's Waterfront Park, the fountain was placed here in 1990 amid the spring time after Hurricane Hugo had hit.
The South Carolina Aquarium is Charleston's #1 family attraction.
The park consists of 13 acres (5.3 hectares), therefore making it the ideal place to take a walk or even get some studying done, as the College of Charleston is very close. Pineapples started to turn into prominent when Charleston was more of a shipping port in the Colonial days.
MUSC Health Stadium, home of the Charleston Battery Charleston is home to a number of professional, minor league, and amateur sports teams: The Charleston Battery, a experienced soccer team, plays in the United Soccer League.
The Charleston Battery plays on Daniel Island at MUSC Health Stadium.
The Stingrays play in North Charleston at the North Charleston Coliseum.
The Charleston River - Dogs, a Minor League Baseball team, plays in the South Atlantic League and are an partner of the New York Yankees.
The Charleston Outlaws RFC is a rugby union club in the Palmetto Rugby Union, USA Rugby South, and USA Rugby.
The Lowcountry Highrollers is a women's flat-track roller derby league in the Charleston area.
Other notable sports venues in Charleston include Johnson Hagood Stadium (home of The Citadel Bulldogs football team) and Toronto Dominion Bank Arena at the College of Charleston, which seats 5,700 citizens who view the school's basketball and volleyball teams.
Main articles: Creative works set in Charleston, South Carolina and List of tv shows and movies in Charleston, South Carolina In addition, Charleston is a prominent filming locale for movies and television, both in its own right and as a stand-in for Southern and/or historic settings.
George Gershwin's folk opera Porgy and Bess (1935), based on the novel Porgy, is set in Charleston and was partially written at Folly Beach, near Charleston.
North and South series of books by John Jakes, was partially set in Charleston.
The North and South miniseries was partially set and filmed in Charleston.
Charleston is a primary tourist destination, with a considerable number of luxury hotels, hotel chains, inns, and bed and breakfasts, and a large number of award-winning restaurants and character shopping.
Charleston is also an meaningful art destination, titled a top-25 arts destination by American - Style magazine. The town/city has two shipping terminals, owned and directed by the South Carolina Ports Authority, which are part of the fourth-largest container seaport on the East Coast and the thirteenth biggest container seaport in North America. Charleston is becoming a prime locale for knowledge technology jobs and corporations, and has experienced the highest expansion in this zone between 2011 and 2012 due in large part to the Charleston Digital Corridor.
Charleston also has some of the higher home prices in the nation with an average home price of $420,000. This increase has resulted in lower income citizens moving to suburbs to find housing. Charleston City Hall is open to tourists for no-charge historical tours.
In 2006, Charleston's inhabitants voted against Amendment 1, which sought to ban same-sex marriage in South Carolina.
Fire Department station homes for Engines 2 and 3 of the Charleston Fire Department The City of Charleston Fire Department consists over 300 full-time firefighters.
The City of Charleston Police Department, with a total of 458 sworn officers, 117 civilians, and 27 reserve police officers, is South Carolina's biggest police department. Their procedures on cracking down on drug use and gang violence in the town/city are used as models to other metros/cities to do the same. According to the final 2005 FBI Crime Reports, Charleston crime level is worse than the nationwide average in almost every primary category. Greg Mullen, the former Deputy Chief of the Virginia Beach, Virginia Police Department, serves as the current Chief of the Charleston Police Department.
Emergency medical services (EMS) for the town/city are provided by Charleston County Emergency Medical Services (CCEMS) & Berkeley County Emergency Medical Services (BCEMS).
The town/city is served by the EMS and 911 services of both Charleston and Berkeley counties since the town/city is part of both counties.
Charleston is the major medical center for the easterly portion of the state.
The town/city has a several major hospitals positioned in the downtown area: Medical University of South Carolina Medical Center (MUSC), Ralph H.
Additionally, more expansions are prepared or underway at another primary hospital positioned in the West Ashley portion of the city: Bon Secours-St Francis Xavier Hospital. The Trident Regional Medical Center positioned in the City of North Charleston and East Cooper Regional Medical Center positioned in Mount Pleasant also serve the needs of inhabitants of the town/city of Charleston.
Coast Guard Station Charleston responds to search and rescue emergencies, conducts maritime law enforcement activities, and Ports, Waterways, and Coastal Security (PWCS) missions.
Personnel from Station Charleston are highly trained professionals, composed of federal law enforcement officers, boat crewmen, and coxswains who are capable of completing a wide range of missions.
Charleston Police Department police transporter The following table shows Charleston's crime rate for six crimes that Morgan Quitno uses to calculate the ranking of "America's most dangerous cities", in comparison to the nationwide average.
Crime Charleston, SC (2011) National Average Since 1999, the overall crime rate of Charleston has begun to decline.
The total crime index rate for Charleston in 1999 was 597.1 crimes committed per 100,000 citizens , while in 2011, the total crime index rate was 236.4 per 100,000.
The City of Charleston is served by the Charleston International Airport.
It is positioned in the City of North Charleston and is about 12 miles (20 km) northwest of downtown Charleston.
The airport shares runways with the adjoining Charleston Air Force Base.
Charleston Executive Airport is a lesser airport positioned in the John's Island section of the town/city of Charleston and is used by noncommercial airplane .
Both airports are owned and directed by the Charleston County Aviation Authority.
Charleston is served by two daily Amtrak trains: The Palmetto and Silver Meteor at the Amtrak station positioned at 4565 Gaynor Avenue in the City of North Charleston positioned around 7.5 miles from downtown Charleston.
Near the exit from I-26 onto Meeting Street in Charleston, South Carolina, the intersection of Meeting Street and Line Street is visible in photo.
Interstate 26 (I-26) begins in downtown Charleston, with exits to the Septima Clark Expressway, the Arthur Ravenel, Jr.
Heading northwest, it joins the town/city to North Charleston, the Charleston International Airport, I-95, and Columbia.
Route 17 (US 17), which travels east west through the metros/cities of Charleston and Mount Pleasant.
I-26 (eastern end is in Charleston) US 52 (eastern end is in Charleston) US 78 (Eastern end is in Charleston) Bridge athwart the Cooper River opened on July 16, 2005, and was the second-longest cable-stayed bridge in the Americas at the time of its construction. The bridge links downtown Charleston with Mount Pleasant, and has eight lanes plus a 12-foot lane shared by pedestrians and bicycles.
Charleston Area Regional Transportation Authority The town/city is also served by a bus system, directed by the Charleston Area Regional Transportation Authority (CARTA).
Main article: Port of Charleston The Port of Charleston, owned and directed by the South Carolina Ports Authority, is one of the biggest ports in the U.S. The Port of Charleston consists of five terminals, and a sixth terminal was to open in 2018.
Even with occasional workforce disputes, the port is ranked number one in customer satisfaction athwart North America by supply chain executives. Port activeness at the two terminals positioned in the town/city of Charleston is one of the city's dominant sources of revenue, behind tourism.
Today, the Port of Charleston boasts the deepest water in the southeast region and regularly handles ships too big to transit through the Panama Canal.
A harbor-deepening universal is presently underway to take the Port of Charleston's entrance channel to 54 feet and harbor channel to 52 feet at mean low tide.
Union Pier, in the town/city of Charleston, is a cruise ship passenger terminal which hosts various cruise departures annually.
City of North Charleston See also: List of schools in Charleston, South Carolina Because most of the town/city of Charleston is positioned in Charleston County, it is served by the Charleston County School District.
Part of the city, however, is served by the Berkeley County School District in northern portions of the city, such as the Cainhoy Industrial District, Cainhoy Historical District and Daniel Island.
Charleston is also served by a large number of autonomous schools, including Porter-Gaud School (K-12), Charleston Collegiate School (K-12), Ashley Hall (Pre K-12), Charleston Day School (1 8), First Baptist Church School (K-12), Palmetto Christian Academy (K-12), Coastal Christian Preparatory School (K-12), Mason Preparatory School (K-8), and Addlestone Hebrew Academy (K-8).
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Charleston Office of Education also operates out of the town/city and oversees a several K-8 parochial schools, such as Blessed Sacrament School, Christ Our King School, Charleston Catholic School, Nativity School, and Divine Redeemer School, all of which are "feeder" schools into Bishop England High School, a diocesan high school inside the city.
Bishop England, Porter-Gaud School, and Ashley Hall are the city's earliest and most prominent private schools, and are a momentous part of Charleston history, dating back some 150 years.
Public establishments of college studies in Charleston include the College of Charleston (the nation's 13th-oldest university), The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina, and the Medical University of South Carolina.
The town/city is also home to private universities, including the Charleston School of Law.
Charleston is also home to the Roper Hospital School of Practical Nursing, and the town/city has a downtown satellite ground for the region's technical school, Trident Technical College.
Charleston is also the locale for the only college in the nation that offers bachelor's degrees in the building arts, The American College of the Building Arts. The Art Institute of Charleston, positioned downtown on North Market Street, opened in 2007.
Higher education includes establishments such as the Medical University of South Carolina, College of Charleston, The Citadel, and Charleston School of Law.
In addition, Charleston Southern University is positioned in close-by North Charleston.
Charleston, North Charleston, Goose Creek, and Hanahan are home to chapters of the United States military.
Coast Guard Sector Charleston (District 7) Coast Guard Station Charleston (Search and Rescue, Maritime Law Enforcement, Ports, Waterways, and Coastal Security) United States Army Corps of Engineers, Charleston District Main article: Media in Charleston, South Carolina Charleston is the nation's 98th-largest Designated market region (DMA), with 312,770 homeholds and 0.27% of the U.S.
WCBD-TV (2, NBC) and (14, CW): licensed in Charleston, owned by Media General, broadcast studios are positioned in Mount Pleasant WGWG (4, Heroes & Icons): licensed in Charleston, formerly owned by Allbritton Communications, presently owned by Howard Stirk Holdings, broadcast studios are positioned in Mount Pleasant WCSC-TV (5, CBS, Bounce TV, Grit): licensed in Charleston, owned by Raycom, broadcast studios are positioned in Charleston WITV (7, PBS): licensed in Charleston, owned by South Carolina Educational Television, transmitter in Mount Pleasant WLCN-CD (18, CTN) licensed in Charleston, owned by Faith Assembly of God, broadcast studios are positioned in Summerville, South Carolina WTAT-TV (24, Fox): licensed in Charleston, owned by Cunningham Broadcasting Company, broadcast studios are positioned in North Charleston WAZS-CD (29, Azteca America Independent) licensed in Charleston, owned by Jabar Communications, broadcast studios are positioned in North Charleston WJNI-CD (31, America One Independent) licensed in Charleston, owned by Jabar Communications, broadcast studios are positioned in North Charleston, South Carolina WCIV (36, My - Network - TV, ABC, Me - TV): licensed in Charleston, owned by Sinclair Broadcasting Company, broadcast studios are positioned in North Charleston Charleston has one official sister city, Spoleto, Umbria, Italy. The relationship between the two metros/cities began when Pulitzer Prize-winning Italian composer Gian Carlo Menotti chose Charleston as the town/city to host the American version of Spoleto's annual Festival of Two Worlds.
"Looking for a town/city that would furnish the charm of Spoleto, as well as its richness of theaters, churches, and other performance spaces, they chose Charleston, South Carolina, as the ideal location.
Peter, Barbados. The initial parts of Charlestown were based on the plans of Barbados's capital town/city Bridgetown. Many indigo, tobacco, and cotton planters relocated their slaves and plantation operations from Speightstown to Charleston after the sugarcane trade came to dominate agricultural manufacturing in Barbados. 1886 Charleston earthquake French Quarter (Charleston, South Carolina) List of citizens from Charleston, South Carolina List of tallest buildings in Charleston, South Carolina List of tv shows and films in Charleston, South Carolina National Register of Historic Places listings in Charleston, South Carolina The female figure is sometimes glossed as Athena, although the official explanation is that she is a personification of Charleston itself. Similarly, although aedes properly refers to temples and originally referred to the churches depicted on the seal, the official gloss is that it intends the city's "buildings".
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"Killings Add a Painful Chapter to Storied History of Charleston Church".
"Events Historic Charleston Foundation".
"Charleston Marathon".
"Charleston Conference to flood downtown with 1,600 bookworms".
Charleston City Paper.
Charleston Jazz.
Charleston Jazz.
Charleston, SC".
Charleston City Paper.
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"Waterfront Park: Charleston, South Carolina".
"The Legend of the Charleston Pineapple Sweetgrass Social".
"Charleston Hurling Club".
Charleston Hurling Club.
"Charleston, South Carolina Outpaces the Nation in Tech Growth".
"Charleston County election results by precinct: 2006 general election".
"Investigation examining Charleston firefighters' handling of deadly blaze,".
"Charleston, South Carolina (SC) Detailed Profile relocation, real estate, travel, jobs, hospitals, schools, crime, move, moving, homes news, sex offenders".
"Tri - County Link non-urban bus service with flagstop fitness serving Berkeley, Charleston and Dorchester counties of South Carolina".
"Home Private School Charleston SC Mason Preparatory School".
"Charleston drops in TV market pecking order".
"Television station listings in Charleston, South Carolina Total station FCC filings found".
"Barbados: South Carolina's Mother Colony".
(1911), "Charleston (South Carolina)", Encyclop dia Britannica, 5 (11th ed.), Cambridge University Press, pp.
(1998), South Carolina: A History, Columbia: University of South Carolina Press (2005), The Politics of Taste in Antebellum Charleston, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press The Ecclesiology of John England, Bishop of Charleston, 1820 1842, a Nineteenth Century Missionary Bishop in the Southern United States.
Charleston, South Carolina: Bagpipe, 1982.
Charleston's Maritime Heritage, 1670 1865: An Illustrated History.
Charleston, South Carolina: Coker-Craft, 1987.
New Men, New Cities, New South: Atlanta, Nashville, Charleston, Mobile, 1860 1910.
Building Charleston: Town and Society in the Eighteenth Century British Atlantic World (University of Virginia Press, 2010, University of South Carolina Press 2015) The Urban Establishment: Upper Strata in Boston, New York, Charleston, Chicago, and Los Angeles.
Confederate Charleston: An Illustrated History of the City and the People amid the Civil War.
A Short History of Charleston.
Spence's Guide to South Carolina: diving, 639 shipwrecks (1520 1813), saltwater sport fishing, recreational shrimping, crabbing, oystering, clamming, saltwater aquarium, 136 campgrounds, 281 boat landings (Nelson Southern Printing, Sullivan's Island, South Carolina: Spence, 1976) OCLC: 2846435 Gardens of Historic Charleston.
Charleston, South Carolina: Arcadia Publishing.
Charleston, South Carolina: Historic Charleston Foundation.
Renaissance in Charleston: Art and Life in the Carolina Low Country, 1900 1940.
The Churches of Charleston and the Lowcountry (hardback).
Columbia South Carolina: University of South Carolina Press.
Charleston's Navy Yard: A Picture History.
Charleston, South Carolina: Coker Craft, 1985.
Complete Charleston: A Guide to the Architecture, History, and Gardens of Charleston.
Charleston, South Carolina: TM Photography.
The Buildings of Charleston: A Guide to the City's Architecture.
Huger Smith, Alice Ravenel; Huger Smith, Daniel Elliott; Simons, Albert, The Dwelling House of Charleston, South Carolina, Philadelphia: J.B.
Science, Race, and Religion in the American South: John Bachman and the Charleston Circle of Naturalists, 1815 1895.
Information for Guides of Historic Charleston, South Carolina.
Charleston, South Carolina: City of Charleston Tourism Commission.
Historic Preservation for a Living City: Historic Charleston Foundation, 1947 1997.
Historic Charleston Foundation Studies in History and Culture series.
A Golden Haze of Memory: The Making of Historic Charleston.
The Angel Oak tree at Johns Island near Charleston is featured prominently in the book, The Locket by Emily Nelson.
Slave Badges and the Slave-Hire System in Charleston, South Carolina, 1783 1865.
Seizing the New Day: African Americans in Post-Civil War Charleston.
No Chariot Let Down: Charleston's Free People of Color on the Eve of the Civil War.
Braided Relations, Entwined Lives: The Women of Charleston's Urban Slave Society.
Unequal Freedom: Ethnicity, Race, and White Supremacy in Civil War-Era Charleston.
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