Charleston. Overview. Charleston, South Carolina is one of the most popular tourist destinations in the Southeast. It has olde worlde Southern charm and is lived in by very well off people. It has antebellum architecture made for strolling past preferably in a crinoline dress, twirling a parasol, but jeans and trainers are fine. It even smells gorgeous with blooming jasmine, gardenia and honey suckle dripping above you from every veranda and balcony. Charles II made Charles Towne as it was then called, one of the busiest ports on the Eastern seaboard, because it was the main place for trading rice. Its profits were made off the backs of slave labour imported from Africa. The Civil War started in Charleston but because they could no longer get away with using slave labour after they lost, Charleston’s fortunes yhen waned on the rice front. Natural disasters followed such as the major earthquake in 1886. Fires, storms, and Hurricane Hugo devastated the city in 1989. But amazingly most of the historic sights have survived, which all goes to show that folk knew how to build in those days. For really good shops and restaurants hot foot it to the downtown Peninsula area to King, Meeting and E. Bay, Market and Broad Streets East to West.
Charleston, South Carolina is one of the most popular tourist destinations in the Southeast. It has olde worlde Southern charm and is lived in by very well off people. It has antebellum architecture made for strolling past preferably in a crinoline dress, twirling a parasol, but jeans and trainers are fine. It even smells gorgeous with blooming jasmine, gardenia and honey suckle dripping above you from every veranda and balcony.
Charles II made Charles Towne as it was then called, one of the busiest ports on the Eastern seaboard, because it was the main place for trading rice. Its profits were made off the backs of slave labour imported from Africa. The Civil War started in Charleston but because they could no longer get away with using slave labour after they lost, Charleston’s fortunes yhen waned on the rice front. Natural disasters followed such as the major earthquake in 1886. Fires, storms, and Hurricane Hugo devastated the city in 1989. But amazingly most of the historic sights have survived, which all goes to show that folk knew how to build in those days.
For really good shops and restaurants hot foot it to the downtown Peninsula area to King, Meeting and E. Bay, Market and Broad Streets East to West.