Wildlife viewing (in the wild or at the South Carolina Aquarium); walking tours; outdoor restaurants; sports; horseback riding; Patriots Point and Fort Sumter; Ft.
Charleston
may be known for its natural beauty, first-class restaurants, shopping and romantic appeal, but what people fall in love with is its overall charm. After being a majority minority city for most of its history, at the end of the 20th century, many whites began to return to the urban core of Charleston, and the area became gentrified due to rising prices and rents. The city is also home to private schools, such as Southern Charleston University and the Charleston Law School.Other notable sports venues in Charleston include Johnson Hagood Stadium (home of The Citadel Bulldogs soccer team), the McAlister Field House (home of The Citadel Bulldogs basketball team), and the Toronto Dominion Bank Arena at the College of Charleston, which seats 5,100 people who watch the school's basketball and volleyball teams. As a result of the trade, there was a forced migration of more than one million enslaved people from the Upper South to the Lower South in the years before the war. It was felt as far away as Boston to the north, Chicago and Milwaukee to the northwest, as far west as New Orleans, as far south as Cuba and as far east as Bermuda. The expansion of cotton as a commercial crop in the South generated enormous wealth for a small segment of society and financed impressive architecture and culture.
Public institutions of higher education in Charleston include the College of Charleston, The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina, and the Medical University of South Carolina. As you may know, the city of Charleston, like Panama City, is a historic port city that shares a proud and prosperous history. The Gullah community has had an enormous influence on Charleston music, especially with regard to the early development of jazz music. Immerse yourself in Charleston's burgeoning art scene at the recently renovated Gibbes Art Museum, which houses more than 10,000 works of Southern art, including regional collections and pieces from the Charleston Renaissance from 1915 to 1940. On March 24, 1663, King Charles II granted the license of the province of Carolina to eight of his loyal friends, known as the Lords Proprietors.
Today, the port of Charleston has the deepest waters in the southeastern region and often receives ships that are too large to transit the Panama Canal. The Bank of South Carolina, the second oldest building in the country built as a bank, was established in 1798. Heading northwest, it connects the city to North Charleston, Charleston International Airport, I-95 and Columbia. I-26 begins in downtown Charleston, with exits to the Seventh Clark Highway, Arthur Ravenel Jr. The port of Charleston extends about 11 km (7 miles) southeast to the Atlantic, with an average width of about 2 miles (3.2 km), and is surrounded on all sides except for its entrance.
