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Glimpses of Charleston

A local's eye view

This beautiful sun-dappled house on Church Street dates back to 1785. The cast ironwork was added in the 1820's. The difference between cast and wrought iron is that cast iron comes from the molten metal being poured into a mold, while wrought iron is shaped by hand (usually the hot metal is hammered into shape). 

Casting Call

This beautiful sun-dappled house on Church Street dates back to 1785. The cast ironwork was added in the 1820’s. The difference between cast and wrought iron is that cast iron comes from the molten metal being poured into a mold, which hardens into a repeatable form. Wrought iron is shaped by hand, with the hot metal being hammered into the desired form.

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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