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HISTORIC CHARLESTON & RESORT ISLANDS As one of the country’s most beautifully preserved architectural treasures, the historic city of Charleston features cobblestone streets, pastel mansions with lacy wrought iron balconies, homes turned museums and grand hotels. Just outside downtown, award-winning golf courses overlook the Atlantic Ocean, stately plantations hold centuries of stories, and the laid-back sea islands beckon with sandy beaches and casual dock-and-dine eateries. REGIONAL MUST-SEES Old South Carriage Co., Charleston | Folly Beach, Folly Beach | Tidal Wave Water Sports, Isle of Palms | Freshfields Village, Kiawah Island | Patriots Point Naval & Maritime Museum, Mount Pleasant | The Station Park Circle, North Charleston | Fort Moultrie, Sullivan’s Island | Colonial Dorchester State Historic Site, Summerville TIME-HONORED TRADITION The Charleston City Market, established in the 1790s, features more than 50 resident Gullah artisans creating an epicenter of sweetgrass basketry—one of the nation’s oldest and most beautiful handicrafts. Find Corey Alston, owner and artist of Sweetgrass Baskets, at the stairway entrance on Meeting Street in the front of the market where his permanent location resides. He is a generational sweetgrass weaver who designs his high-quality, handcrafted pieces in an array of eyecatching patterns and styles, and his work is displayed at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. HISTORIC SITES » Fort Sumter National Monument Hop on the ferry operated by Fort Sumter Tours to visit the site in Charleston Harbor where the first shots of the American Civil War were fired in 1861. » Old Exchange & Provost Dungeon, Charleston Built in 1771, this has been the spot for lavish parties (with George Washington as a guest), a meeting place for leaders as they ratified the United States Constitution, a prison during the American Revolution and an auction house of enslaved Africans. » Morris Island Lighthouse, Folly Beach Construction of this lighthouse started in 1872, and, at 161 feet, it is the tallest lighthouse in South Carolina.
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