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Glimpses of Charleston

A local's eye view

This beautiful Charleston entryway is to a Meeting Street house built in 1789. If you turn left when walking out the door you'll quickly come to the intersection of Meeting and Broad Streets -- known as the Four Corners of Law (dubbed that by Robert Ripley, of Ripley's Believe It or Not).

Enter Here

This beautiful Charleston entryway is to a Meeting Street house built in 1789. If you turn left when walking out the door you’ll quickly come to the intersection of Meeting and Broad Streets — known as the Four Corners of Law (dubbed that by Robert Ripley, of Ripley’s Believe It or Not).

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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