Charleston Trip
Nov. 2nd, 2007 11:31 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lisamoeI'll post more in detail, but here are the major things I saw in Charleston:
I stayed at the Lodge Alley Inn, which is a converted warehouse in the historic district.
I also went to:
CSS Hunley, the first successful attack submarine
The old Navy Yard
Charles Towne Landing, the site of the original settlement, now a state park/archeological site
The Battery/White Point Gardens
Rainbow Row, a series of famous houses at the Battery
Fort Sumter, which is on an island at the mouth of the harbor (you have to go by boat)
Patriot's Point, which among other things, has the USS Yorktown, now a giant museum, and the USS Laffey, a destroyer that survived a huge kamikaze attack in WWII
The Exchange and Provost Dungeon
The Powder Magazine
The City Market
A carriage ride of the Battery area
A late night "Dark Side of Charleston" walking tour that included a historic brothel and moonight tour of the Circular Congregational Church graveyard
The opening of the Old Slave Mart museum (I shook the Mayor of Charleston's hand)
The Arthur Ravenel Bridge
Plus I ate at a lot of good places and saw lots of fun little shops. Of course every single building you step in in Charleston is historic and significant and has some long back story, but those are the main tourist destinations that I managed to get to. Just as interesting as the buildings and museums were the crazy crazy locals though, but that's another entry.
If you want to see any of the things I mentioned, here's the entry for Charleston at wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charleston%2C_sc
I stayed at the Lodge Alley Inn, which is a converted warehouse in the historic district.
I also went to:
CSS Hunley, the first successful attack submarine
The old Navy Yard
Charles Towne Landing, the site of the original settlement, now a state park/archeological site
The Battery/White Point Gardens
Rainbow Row, a series of famous houses at the Battery
Fort Sumter, which is on an island at the mouth of the harbor (you have to go by boat)
Patriot's Point, which among other things, has the USS Yorktown, now a giant museum, and the USS Laffey, a destroyer that survived a huge kamikaze attack in WWII
The Exchange and Provost Dungeon
The Powder Magazine
The City Market
A carriage ride of the Battery area
A late night "Dark Side of Charleston" walking tour that included a historic brothel and moonight tour of the Circular Congregational Church graveyard
The opening of the Old Slave Mart museum (I shook the Mayor of Charleston's hand)
The Arthur Ravenel Bridge
Plus I ate at a lot of good places and saw lots of fun little shops. Of course every single building you step in in Charleston is historic and significant and has some long back story, but those are the main tourist destinations that I managed to get to. Just as interesting as the buildings and museums were the crazy crazy locals though, but that's another entry.
If you want to see any of the things I mentioned, here's the entry for Charleston at wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charleston%2C_sc
