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Welcome to Charleston, South Carolina!
A city of history, mystery and preservation.
Located along the coast of South Carolina, Charleston is surrounded by sparkling beaches, spacious marshes and Palmetto Trees.
Charles Town was named after King Charles II in 1663, later changed to Charleston in 1783, after he gave away the Carolina, from Virginia to Florida, to Eight Lords Proprietors. In 1670 settlers landed at Albemarle Point, the settlement then moved to oyster Point in 1680, which is now White Point Gardens( also known as the Battery). The bounderies of the new city were streets Meeting, Water, Broad and the Cooper River. By 1690, Charles Town was America's fith largest city.
Charleston attracted many immigrants because of it's tolerance of religious freedom and lucrative seafaring trade. While searching for wealth and security, colonist discover Pluff Mud is the perfect environment for the cultivation of rice, Carolina Gold! Also cultivated is indigo and sea island cotton. Once the means of creating wealth is discovered, the cry for feild labor promotes the expansion of the English Slave Trade. By early 1700's Charles Town's population was majority African. The most cosmopolitan city of the eighteenth century America Flourishes! By 1776 Charles Town was the fourth largest municipality in the colonies, the richest per capita, with a population estimated at 12,000. Three signers of the Declaration of Independence owned homes here.
In 1860, with an estimated 40,500 residents, Charleston passes the Oridnance of Secession, announcing South Carolina as an "Independent Commonwealth". A year later the Confederate troops fire on Fort Sumter, marking the beginning of the Civil War. Charleston endured 567 consecutive days of bombardment, the longest in history. The opulence that once distinguished the most beautiful city in the South was tattered or destroyed, leaving the treasures of Charleston on the ash heap of history. Charleston was down, but it was not out, as plans for restoration were never far from the minds of true locals and owners of Charleston SC real estate. Fort Sumter was later turned into a U.S. National Monument.
In the 1900's Charleston was still growing with an estimated population of 55,807. The City of Charleston adopts and Planning and Zoning ordinance establishing the
"Old and Historic district" in 1931. Over ten years later the Charleston Historical Foundation was established to oversee a revolving fund to purchase threatened historic properties and restore them.
With the glorious resurrection of the past half-decade, Charleston, South Carolina has claimed the hearts and souls of many, as city officials clamor to preserve the best of the past, while taking its citizens and owners of Charleston SC real estate into the future.
