Some Sights Around Charleston SC

Charleston's home are beautiful and historical.  The city fathers have shone foresight in providing regulations that perserve these wonderful homes.  The one below is over 20,000 square feet in size.  One of the largest in Charleston.

This area is called Rainbow Row. 

Some of the old parts of Charleston have cobblestone roads.  The cobblestones were brought over by the merchants coming to America.  They would weigh their empty ships down with them.  Charleston has regulations about these roads also.  Heavy trucks cannot use them.

This is "The Old Powder House".  It was built during the Civil War to protect the gun powder.  The walls are five feet thick.  It was believed not even the biggest canonball could penetrate it.  It was never tested though.

Remember, the Gershwin opera Porgy & Bess.  This alcove was the inspiration.  There actually as a man that had no legs and wheeled around on a board with wheels.  Gershwin was staying across the street when he wrote it.

This is the Citadel.  Currently, it is an academy that has produced many leaders. Numerous alumni have served as flag officers in all branches of our uniformed military services. They have served as governors, United States Senators and Congressmen, distinguished jurists, ambassadors, presidents of universities and colleges, prominent theologians, engineers, doctors, lawyers, writers and business executives in many diverse fields of endeavor.

The history of the Citadel is fascinating.  It has been a tobacco inspection site, a muster for militia units, a federal arsenal.  It saw the Revolutionary War and the Civil War and more...

The Old Jail building served as the Charleston County Jail from its construction in 1802 until 1939.  There are stories it is haunted.  It is said this jail was a BAD place to go and actually deterred crime in Charleston.