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This cool pink house is located on Chalmers Street, one of eight active cobblestone streets in Charleston. While not so good for your car's suspension, local wisdom has it that riding down them is good to help induce labor if you are pregnant.

Cobbled Together

This cool pink house is located on Chalmers Street, one of eight active cobblestone streets in Charleston. While not so good for your car’s suspension, local wisdom has it that riding down them is good to help induce labor if you are pregnant.

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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