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Glimpses of Charleston

A local's eye view

Tradd Beauty

This beautiful garden can be found on Tradd Street, fronting a house built in 1807. The site on which this house was built was originally owned by Robert Squibb, the author the The Gardener’s Calendar, a seminal work on which fruits and vegetables could grow in the region — which was a pretty important thing in that era. The 208 page book is still in print!

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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