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Glimpses of Charleston

A local's eye view

Beautiful Balusters

These curving balusters form the corner of South Battery and East Battery. It’s a spectacular location, as the house will give you amazing views of White Point Garden, the High Battery and Charleston Harbor. Recently, this view of the exterior of this house was used for at time in the short-lived CBS TV series, Reckless, as the home of a powerful law firm. While never a real life law firm, it was originally a single family house that has now been divided into condos.

Ask a Local

What’s the deal with the City Market? Were slaves sold there or not?

asks John H., from Seattle, Washington… The City Market is what was called the “Slaves’ Market,” not the “Slaves Market.”  That apostrophe makes all the difference in the world. While a shocking number of humans were sold into slavery in Charleston (a very dark period in the City’s history), they were not sold at what […]

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