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The Charleston Slavery and Freedom Walking Tour has been offered by Charleston Old Wall City Tours since 20O8. It is one of two walking tours of downtown Charleston which take you to the sites and the buildings important to slavery in South Carolina in the 18th and 19th centuries. It is unique in that unlike …
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Unveiling Lowcountry Charm: Embark on a Charleston Private Tour! Old Walled City Tours invites you to engage a Charleston priivate tour that providing travelers an experience withthe authentic southern charm that defines the Carolina Lowcountry. Charleston, South Carolina is a charming city that has captured the hearts of tourists from around the globe, and offers a myriad of …
With so many things to see and do in Charleston, here are some sightseeing highlights. Charleston Walking Tours Start your vacation with Old Walled City Tours and get an overview of the city and the culture. This tour highlights historic landmarks. Standingf at High Battery you will view Fort Sumter where the Civil War began. …
“HOW MUCH AM I OFFERED FOR THIS GOOD COOK? SHE IS AN EXCELLENT COOK: CAN MAKE THREE KINDS OF MOCK TURTLE SOUP FROM BEEF, FOWLS, OR FISH”The above is an excerpt from the Charleston Courier on March 22, 1865, recounting the Freedmen’s Jubilee Parade, which featured a black man on a float with a woman …
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This being the season for the “Wearing of the Green” I thought I might take this time to wish my readers a Happy St Patrick’s Day and relate to you the story behind why I didn’t join the Hibernian Society. Hibernian Society Hall,1840Of course, the Irish are famous for blarney, so, in the spirit of …
Learn Why I Never Joined The Hibernian Society — Happy St Patrick’s Day Read More »
With so many things to see and do in Charleston, here are some sightseeing highlights. Charleston Walking Tours Start your vacation with Old Walled City Tours and get an overview of the city and the culture. This tour highlights historic landmarks. Standingf at High Battery you will view Fort Sumter where the Civil War began. …
“The first sunbeams glowed upon … the blossoming hedges along the rectangular dikes. What were those black dots which everywhere appeared? Those moist meadows had become alive with human heads, and along each narrow path came a straggling file of men and women, all on a run for the river-side” This month we celebrate Juneteenth! …
The story that I tell today is one of Charleston’s oldest and most colorful legends, a story I heard at age 6 when my father told me the story of Charleston’s favorite serial killers, John and Lavinia Fisher. But to properly tell the tale, I need to reference Charleston’s most haunted structure. It sits on a …
The Six Mile House – A Spooky Story For Halloween! Read More »
February 18, 1865 was the end of one era and the beginning of a new one for Charleston. For those of you “from off” who know that the Civil War–that is, the War Between the States–is a big deal in the South but you aren’t really sure why that is after all this time, let me …
February 18, 1865 – The Dramatic Fall of Confederate Charleston Read More »
The Charleston Slavery and Freedom Walking Tour is being offered Monday through Saturday at 1:30 PM through Black History Month This is not a Gullah Tour, nor is it an African American Focus Tour. Highlighting the history of Slavery in Charleston from its inception with the founding of the colony , this compelling Charleston walking tour provides context …
The Charleston Slavery and Freedom Walking Tour is offered through Black History Month. Read More »
