30/50.- Charleston, Library

Shadows seem to paint pictures on the Charleston’s library walls and steps.

Charleston is about a two hour drive north of Hilton Head. It’s a place that you can visit and revisit and never become tired of. This is just a tiny sampling of some of Charleston’s highlights but it’ll give you some kind of idea of what the city is like.

Charleston is named after King Charles. Charles Towne was settled by the English along the nearby shores of Albermarle Point in 1670, but then some ten years later the settlers relocated to its present site. Charleston was made to survive. From Indian uprisings to epidemics and the Civil War, Charleston has proven that charm and elegance can indeed be the foundations for survival with dignity. For three years Union ships battered the Confederate-occupied Fort Sumter. Never ones to take a beating lying down, the Confederate submarine, the Hunley, sank the USS Housatonic. But in the end, the Civil War came and went, losers and winners one and all, yet Charleston never lost its magnificence nor its charm.

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