After our carriage ride through the streets of Charleston, we wander over to the City Market, then past it toward the harbor
City market sheds
A lot of history in the cemeteries
We walk past more of the Charleston single-home architecture, with narrow-front, several-room-deep, faux-front-door houses, on our way to the harbor where we recently (on our carriage ride) passed the grand mansions of the city's merchants (of another era), including a house build by a merchant for his daughter (who loved Paris) with a model of the Arc de Triomphe on top (currently underdoing rennovation).
Charleston-style houses
More churches
Grand housing
Arc de Triomphe on the roof
We reach the harbor at White Point Garden and the Battery, a landmark defensive seawall and promenade, still decorated with cannons from the Civil War coastal defense. Across the harbor, we get a view of Fort Sumter where the first shots of the war were fired and, in the other direction, the USS Yorktown, a World War II aircraft carrier residing in the Naval and Maritme Museum.
USS Yorktown across the way
Fort Sumter in the harbor
The Battery
White Point Garden
What a charming, walkable city, with great history, architecture, and scenery.
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