15 places found

Pawleys Island, South Carolina
All Saints Waccamaw Church on Pawleys Island has the grave of Alice Flagg, a flat stone marked only "ALICE" under a large oak. The…

Charleston, South Carolina
The Battery Carriage House Inn, built in 1843 on South Battery, was part of a mansion's grounds and sheltered Confederate soldiers when…

Mount Pleasant, South Carolina
Charleston ghost-tour writers list Boone Hall among the area's haunted places, with reports of apparitions and sounds near the cabins and…

Beaufort, South Carolina
The Castle, also called the Joseph Johnson House, on Craven Street in Beaufort's Point neighborhood is one of the town's best-known old…

Charleston, South Carolina
The Dock Street Theatre on Church Street began as the first building in America constructed as a theater, in 1736, and burned in 1740; the…

Columbia, South Carolina
The Hampton-Preston Mansion in Columbia was built in 1818 and was home to the Hampton and Preston families, and to the enslaved people…

Charleston, South Carolina
The John Rutledge House at 116 Broad Street was built in 1763 as a wedding gift for John Rutledge, later a signer of the Constitution, who…

Charleston, South Carolina
Magnolia Plantation on the Ashley River has been owned by the Drayton family since the 1600s and is open as gardens, a house museum and a…

Charleston, South Carolina
The Old Charleston Jail on Magazine Street was built in 1802, took its first inmates in 1803 and was a district jail for 137 years until…

Charleston, South Carolina
The Old Exchange and Provost Dungeon at the foot of Broad Street was built by 1771 as a customs house and exchange and was used as a prison…

Charleston, South Carolina
Poogan's Porch is a Charleston restaurant in a Victorian house on Queen Street that has been serving Lowcountry food since 1976. It is…

Charleston, South Carolina
The Powder Magazine, completed in 1713, is the oldest government building in South Carolina and the last surviving piece of Charleston's…

Charleston, South Carolina
The Unitarian Church in Charleston, begun in 1772 and the oldest Unitarian church in the South, sits beside a quiet, vine-covered…

Mount Pleasant, South Carolina
The USS Yorktown, a World War II aircraft carrier launched in 1943, is the centerpiece of the Patriots Point Naval and Maritime Museum in…

Charleston, South Carolina
White Point Garden, at the tip of Charleston's peninsula, is the public park beside the Battery seawall. In 1718 the pirate Stede Bonnet…