Glimpse through the layered history of the city as well as the lives and livelihoods of merchants and tradesmen,...
Created in 1903 on the upper west side of the Charleston peninsula, Hampton Park is the city’s largest park. The 61-...
The building now houses the South Carolina Historical Society Museum
While bemoaning the loss of this year’s DockDogs event, one Charlestonian amuses herself with memories of canines past...
Find out why they're so hard to catch
Charleston is famous for its multi-steepled skyline and with some 400 houses of worship on the peninsula alone, one can...
Why the once rare birds are increasingly being spotted in Charleston
The colorful flower has deep roots in the Lowcountry
How they navigate those big ships into port
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For more than 260 years, this iconic building has served as a commercial exchange and custom house, watch house, public...
Tracing the origins of a holiday decorating tradition
Brightly striped and spotted in orange and black, the colorful Gulf fritillary (Agraulis vanillae) is a familiar sight...
Gossypium has been spun as “the fabric of our lives” for good reason. Scientists have discovered evidence of cotton...
What started out as informal races in the late1700s between oar-powered plantation boats carrying crops to town became...
Anywhere sharks have swum, their teeth are sure to be found. And Lowcountry rivers and beaches provide bountiful...
Avenues of oaks and their deep-rooted history in Charleston
Journey through time with a photographic tour of Charleston’s centuries-old parish churches and chapels-of-ease
From Edisto and Beaufort to McClellanville and Georgetown, each morning during shrimp season the air fills with the...
On March 18, 1839, the Irish organization known as the Hibernian Society laid the first cornerstone for a new hall at...
Explorer John Lawson—who visited South Carolina in 1700—gives an apt introduction to Aix sponsa, whose nicknames...
On the eve of the Gibbes Museum of Art exhibition “Anna Heyward Taylor: Intrepid Explorer,” take a look into the...
Since 1687, the French Protestants known as Huguenots and their descendants have worshipped at the corner of Church and...
One of the Lowcountry’s most prolific evergreens is the wax myrtle (Morella cerifera). It grows easily and everywhere—...
Santa Claus—and live reindeer—came to town for Charleston’s first Christmas parade in the midst of the Great Depression
When Philip Simmons (1912-2009) began to study the craft of ironwork as a 13-year-old apprentice to Holy City...
Throughout history, locals have laid their dead to rest with love, respect, and—at times—unparalleled Charleston style...
Named for its unusual shape, the American horseshoe crab has been called a “living fossil,” as it has been on Earth...
Find yourself envisioning Jurassic Park’s flying dinosaurs when you see a brown pelican mid-air? You aren’t far off. ...
The ”Great Shake” of August 31, 1886, was one of the largest earthquakes ever recorded on the East Coast. Its epicenter...
