The Dock Street Theater was the first building in America designed solely for theatrical performances. The theater opened at the corner of Church and Dock streets on February 12, 1735, with the production of a bawdy farce by...
Read MoreThe Old Charleston Jail stands on the site of a building, dating back to 1738, which served as a slave workhouse, a poor house, and a hospital for vagrants and other impoverished people. In 1802, the old building was replaced...
Read MoreAfter John Fenwick arrived in John’s Island in 1703, he was appointed Commissioner of the Indian Tract. He married Elizabeth Gibbes, the daughter of Governor Robert Gibbes, and moved into a house made of notched logs on the...
Read MoreThe stately old manor known today as the Sword Gates House was built in 1776 as a school for the daughters of the upper-class families of Charleston. For fifty years, the school was bordered only by a hedge and a wooden gate....
Read MoreThe Embassy Suites Hotel is one of the few hotels in the entire world that is housed inside a local landmark. The structure on this site was a fort, built in 1758 to protect the city. Charleston sold the fort to the State of...
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