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Glimpses of Charleston

A local's eye view

High Low

A pretty sunrise as seen from the new high Low Battery — the raised and redone section of the Low Battery, located along Murray Boulevard. The street is named after Andrew Buist Murray, who grew up in a Charleston orphanage. After making a success of himself, he repaid the city in a number of ways, including financing the building of a vocational school on Chalmers Street which bore his name (it’s now 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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