Charleston Trip Overview
Limited to 14 guests, our Small Group Format ensure attentive service for any questions you may have along the way. Our guides have a deep knowledge of both Charleston and National history, and sometimes your questions determine whether we turn right or left at the next intersection!
Take a stroll through Charleston’s oldest neighborhoods on this 2-hour walking tour. Follow your licensed guide as they provide history, legends, and cultural insight about this historic city. Discover the significant French Quarter and tour past grand mansions South of Broad Street before seeing Charleston’s High Battery which overlooks the Charleston harbor.
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Duration: 2 hours
Starts: Charleston, United States
Trip Category: Cultural & Theme Tours >> Historical & Heritage Tours
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What to Expect When Visiting Charleston, South Carolina, United States
Limited to 14 guests, our Small Group Format ensure attentive service for any questions you may have along the way. Our guides have a deep knowledge of both Charleston and National history, and sometimes your questions determine whether we turn right or left at the next intersection!
Take a stroll through Charleston’s oldest neighborhoods on this 2-hour walking tour. Follow your licensed guide as they provide history, legends, and cultural insight about this historic city. Discover the significant French Quarter and tour past grand mansions South of Broad Street before seeing Charleston’s High Battery which overlooks the Charleston harbor.
Itinerary
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Stop At: Shop Historic Charleston, 108 Meeting St, Charleston, SC 29401, USA
Our walking tours start from here. Arrive 15 -20 minutes before tour time and water, umbrellas and ponchos. Shop for elegant gifts and souvenirs, all tax free! Restrooms available.
Duration: 15 minutes
Stop At: Circular Congregational Church, 150 Meeting St, Charleston, SC 29401-2218
This congregation has worshipped on site since 1681. The church of the Colonial townspeople contains an incredible collection of clearly legible slate tombstones from the eighteenth century. Narration in the graveyard.
Duration: 20 minutes
Stop At: The Powder Magazine, 79 Cumberland St, Charleston, SC 29401-3112
A city under constant seige built a gunpowder storage facility by 1713. It is the oldest surviving public structure between St Augustine and Williamsburg. Sidewalk narration.
Duration: 5 minutes
Stop At: St. Philip’s Church, 142 Church St, Charleston, SC 29401-2898
The oldest Congregation in the Carolinas (1680) was the Church of Planters and Politicians. National figures, including signers of the Declaration and the Constitution , are at rest in the graveyard. Sidewalk and graveyard narration.
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: French Huguenot Church, 136 Church St At the corner of Church and Queen sts., Charleston, SC 29401-2802
This elegant Gothic Revival Church is home to the only active French Calvinist congregation in North America. They have worshiped on site since 1706.
Duration: 5 minutes
Stop At: Dock Street Theater, 135 Church St, Charleston, SC 29401-2899
An 18th century style playhouse built as a WPA project in 1937. It is built on the very site of the first playhouse built in British North America in 1736.
Duration: 5 minutes
Stop At: Four Corners of Law, Broad St, Charleston, SC 29401, USA
This intersection has been dedicated to public use since 1680. Ripleys Believe It or Not! deems it the only intersection worldwide where the four governing laws of mankind intersect. Sidewalk narration.
Duration: 5 minutes
Stop At: Old Slave Mart Museum, 6 Chalmers St, Charleston, SC 29401-3005
The only surving structure in Charleston used as a showroom for slave sales houses a museum chronicling the sordid history of Slavery in the South Carolina Lowcountry.
Duration: 5 minutes
Stop At: Old Exchange & Provost Dungeon, 122 E Bay St, Charleston, SC 29401-2103
This Revolutionary War Museum was the scene of events that founded the Nation. President Washington was entertained here four times in 1791. Sidewalk narrative.
Duration: 7 minutes
Stop At: St. Michael’s Church, 71 Broad St, Charleston, SC 29401-2902
the oldest surving church(1761) was targeted during the British Seige in 1780 and the Federal Seige from 1863-1865. Two signers of the Constitution are at rest in the graveyard.
Duration: 7 minutes
Stop At: Rainbow Row, 79 E Bay St # 107, Charleston, SC 29401-2544
A grouping of 18th century commercial buildings painted lovely pastels that harken back to Charleston’s early connections to Barbados, Antigua and Nevis. Sidewalk Narration.
Duration: 5 minutes
Stop At: The Battery, Charleston, SC 29401, USA
Grand waterfront mansions, many built in the first half of the 19th century as party palaces for the Winter Season. It was from one of these houses the General Pierre Beauregard gave orders to Fire at Fort Sumter, commencing the first battle of the Civil War.Sidewalk narration.
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Fort Sumter National Monument, Charleston, SC 29482-9748
View Fort Sumter from the High Battery seawall. Hear the story of the siege and bombardment of both Fort Sumter and Charleston’s civilian population. Hear about the dramatic fall of the city after 587 days.Sidewalk narrative.
Duration: 8 minutes
Stop At: Nathaniel Russell House, 51 Meeting St, Charleston, SC 29401-2536
We enter the garden at the Russell House (1808) to discuss horticulture and garden design. We discuss the layout of a an 18th century Charleston property. And then there is the story of the joggling board! Garden narration, no house admittance.
Duration: 10 minutes