Charleston R4: Angel Oak Johns Island (400-500 years old 8.5m trunk live oak, Spanish moss bromeliad absorbs nutrients from air, Francis Beidler Forest 1000-year-old virgin bald cypress), Sea Islands Gullah heritage (Penn Center St. Helena Island 1862 first school for freed people, MLK SCLC meeting place 1960s, Port Royal Experiment 1861 first test of African American freedom, Hunting Island pristine dark sand beach), Columbia and SC interior (Congaree National Park old-growth bottomland firefly synchronization May-June, SC Aquarium sea turtle rehabilitation, Cowpens Battlefield 1781 Revolutionary War turning point), Francis Marion National Forest (longleaf pine ecosystem 3% remaining, red-cockaded woodpecker, Sewee Visitor Center Cape Romain, Wambaw Creek wilderness canoe trail), New Charleston food (Rodney Scott BBQ 2018 James Beard first Black pitmaster Outstanding SE, whole-hog live oak pits, Leon's Oyster Shop Upper King fried chicken oyster bar, craft cocktail Husk Bar Gin Joint), Ghost tours (most haunted US city top 3, Unitarian churchyard Annabel Lee grave, Old City Jail 1802 Lavinia Fisher first US female serial killer Denmark Vesey 1822 rebellion, Dock Street Theatre ghost Juanita)
Charleston R4: live oak and Angel Oak (400-500-year-old Johns Island 8.5m trunk, Spanish moss bromeliad no roots absorbs from air, Francis Beidler Forest 1000-year virgin bald cypress world largest), Sea Islands (Penn Center St. Helena 1862 first freed-people school MLK SCLC meetings 1960s, Port Royal Experiment 1861 freedom land ownership test, Hunting Island pristine beach), SC interior (Congaree old-growth bottomland champion trees firefly synchronization May-June, SC Aquarium sea turtle rehab, Cowpens 1781 Revolutionary War turning point), Francis Marion National Forest (Swamp Fox Marion irregular warfare inspiration, longleaf pine 3% remaining, red-cockaded woodpecker threatened, Cape Romain 66,000 acres, Wambaw Creek wilderness canoe trail), new Charleston food (Rodney Scott BBQ 2018 James Beard first Black pitmaster whole-hog live oak pits, Leon's Oyster Shop Upper King model for casual fine dining, craft cocktail Husk Bar Gin Joint, restaurant week January September), ghost tours (top 3 most haunted US, Unitarian churchyard Annabel Lee Poe inspiration, Old City Jail 1802 Lavinia Fisher first US female serial killer 1820 Denmark Vesey 34 rebels hanged 1822, Dock Street Juanita ghost).
Charleston: El museo más antiguo de América, la escalera de caracol autosuficiente y el canal pantanoso más antiguo que la nación
Entre en el Old Slave Mart Museum en Chalmers Street, una de las únicas instituciones en América dedicada exclusivamente a la experiencia de subasta del comercio doméstico de esclavos, reme en botes de fondo plano a través de antiguos túneles de cipreses en el jardín pantanoso de la década de 1920, represado del primer canal comercial de América, recorra la Casa Heyward donde Washington durmió en 1791 y vea los mejores muebles coloniales fuera de Newport, escuche a la Sinfónica de Charleston en el Gaillard Center diseñado para la acústica, tenga en cuenta que el cementerio Circular Congregational tiene la lápida más antigua de la ciudad de 1695, y camine por el paseo del Colonial Lake al amanecer con el reflejo de las casas adosadas de antes de la guerra en el agua de la marea.