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These are just miscellaneous pics from walking around Charleston. The pink house is where we stayed. You can see how slanted the house is by lining up the telephone pole with the side of the house. It was a little disorienting inside. The horse and buggy pic was taken right outside that old home from the other direction and the pink flowers were outside a home only a block or two down.
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United StatesThe following day we drove over to Sullivan's Island and toured Fort Moultrie. Fort Moultrie was originally built to protect Charleston during the Revolutionary War. It was later used by the Confederates to bomb Ft. Sumter and then by the union army to do the same. We walked around the fort and checked out the view of Ft. Sumter just across the water. Also saw the grave of Gen. Moultrie and thisRead more
United StatesWe signed up for the Two Sisters Walking Tour of Charleston and it was really good. Charleston is basically one big outdoor museum so there's a reason the walking/historical tours are rated as the best "thing to do" on TripAdvisor. I was pretty bummed that the NCAA scheduled the UF v. South Carolina elite eight game during our tour, but it didn't stop me from going along. The gators lost anyway.Read more
United StatesAfter spending the night in our rather interesting Air BNB apartment, we got up early and headed to the Charleston harbor to catch the ferry out to Ft. Sumter. It was a very pretty day and it was cool to be able to see Charleston from the water. Given how adamant they have been about preserving the architecture of the city it is not a stretch to say that the city skyline looks much the same as itRead more
United StatesOn our way from Augusta to Charleston we stopped at Drayton Hall which is west of Charleston. it is a plantation dating all the way back to 1738 and the only Plantation home near Charleston that managed to survive both the Revolutionary and Civil wars. The building has been kept largely in the state it would have been in centuries ago so it does look rather old. The rest of the grounds are nice asRead more
United StatesLater in the afternoon, we headed over to the August after finding out that the Savannah River Canal tour had been cancelled because they ran the boat aground earlier in the day. The museum was really pretty good. There was, of course, a lot of info on Augusta National Golf Course and the The Masters, and a large section covering the life and career of the "Godfather of Soul" James Brown, who wasRead more
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We arrived a little before noon and got our own personal tour of the house that President Woodrow Wilson lived in as a boy during and after the civil war.
His next door neighbor and best friend, Joseph Lamar, was later appointed to the US Supreme Court by President Taft.
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