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  • Butterfly lacks behind the home at Middleton Place

1. Middleton Place

4,186
Historic Sites • Points of Interest & Landmarks
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These are said to be the oldest landscaped gardens in America.

2. Joe Riley Waterfront Park

5,505
Points of Interest & Landmarks • Parks
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This award "recognizes a distinguished landscape architecture project completed between 15 and 50 years ago that…
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3. Arthur Ravenel Jr. Bridge

4,870
Bridges
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The Arthur Ravenel Jr. Bridge replaced Charleston's former Cooper River Bridges, and forever changed imagery of our…
  • barracks ruins

4. Fort Sumter National Monument

5,588
Historic Sites • Military Bases & Facilities
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The Park Rangers provide insight into the assault upon the fort which triggered the bloodiest war in our nation’s…
  • Front of the "big house" as it was known by the people who lived here

5. McLeod Plantation Historic Site

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Historic Sites • Points of Interest & Landmarks
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McCleod is a microcosm of the history of race relations in the south - from pre-Civil War to the 1990s.

6. Battery & White Point Gardens

2,379
Gardens
Charlestowne
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The Park itself tells stories of Charleston's History and the Civil War through the statues and monuments.
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7. Nathaniel Russell House

1,949
Historic Sites • History Museums
Charlestowne
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Amid formal gardens, NRH is one of America’s most important neoclassical dwellings declared a National Historic…
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8. Old Exchange & Provost Dungeon

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History Museums
Charlestowne
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The Exchange (built in 1768) is one of the last formal structures Britain constructed in Colonial America.
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9. South Carolina Aquarium

2,303
Aquariums
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The museum has aquatic wildlife native to South Carolina swamps, rovers and coastline from alligators to seagoing…
  • Magnolia Plantation Flowers

10. Magnolia Plantation & Gardens

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Historic Sites • Gardens
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This is the 500 acre remnant of the original 2,000 acre Drayton plantation, founded in 1676, and it’s now being run by…
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