Charleston Historic District
National Historic Landmark District · Charleston, South Carolina
The peninsula between the Ashley and the Cooper, settled in 1670 and largely unburnt, unbombed and unredeveloped since — a district of pastel Georgian and Federal houses, iron gates, cobbled ballast streets and a skyline of church steeples that gave it the name the Holy City. In 1931 Charleston wrote the first historic district zoning ordinance in the United States, which is why it still looks like this. It is also the port through which a very large share of all enslaved Africans brought to North America arrived, and the city has finally started saying so out loud.
Meeting Street and Broad Street, Charleston, South Carolina, 29401, United States
The district is public streets, free and open at all hours, and walking it costs nothing. House museums, the Old Slave Mart Museum, church interiors, carriage tours and the Fort Sumter ferry each keep their own schedules and most close by late afternoon. ⚠ THE FORT SUMTER FERRY IS TICKETED, SEASONAL IN FREQUENCY AND SELLS OUT — book it before you build a day around it. Parking is metered and enforced hard; the city garages are the sane option.
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