“Charleston County and the city of Charleston, its county seat, are the most historic locations in the state.” Situated in the Lowcountry, the county serves as a popular vacation destination but also relies on the business that results from its port. The area in general serves as a large cultural and economic hub for the state.
Charleston County was founded as Charleston District in 1769, and the district became smaller after some of its lands were used to create Colleton and Berkeley counties. The county and its seat were named after King Charles II.
The city and county are saturated with Revolutionary War and Civil War history. Three signers of the United States Constitution and two famous abolitionists resided in Charleston County, and the Civil War began when soldiers fired shots from the county’s Fort Sumter.
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What it means if one dreams about an egg or about water
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Story of girls whose mother didn’t want them to speak Gullah
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Gullah story featuring a character named Dr. McClellan. A translation of the Gullah is provided at the end
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Recorded at the 1998 Fall Folklife Festival, McKissick Museum. Notice the differences between this version and the version in the video clip. As with most forms of folk narrative, variation is an...
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Some needlepoint seat cushions that were found covered in mud after Hurricane Hugo
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Thoughts on the appearance of ghosts and how this relates to what is said in the Bible
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Her house was disassembled and moved from its original location, then reassembled
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Description of the damage done to her church by Hurricane Hugo in 1989 and the clean-up afterwards
