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2 Days in Charleston: Historic District, Plantations & Lowcountry Food

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Rainbow Row and the historic peninsula, Fort Sumter and a plantation, and shrimp and grits.

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Day 1 · 4 stops

  1. Rainbow Row & the Battery

    East Bay St

    Thirteen pastel Georgian houses on East Bay Street, then the Battery's seawall promenade and antebellum mansions at the tip of the peninsula.

  2. Charleston City Market

    188 Meeting St

    A market running four blocks, dating to the 1800s; look for sweetgrass baskets woven by Gullah artisans, a West African craft passed down for generations.

  3. French Quarter & Waterfront Park

    Waterfront Park

    Cobblestone alleys, Dock Street Theatre and the Pineapple Fountain in a waterfront park with swings facing the harbor.

  4. Lowcountry dinner

    King St

    King Street is lined with restaurants serving Lowcountry dishes: shrimp and grits, she-crab soup, fried green tomatoes and Frogmore stew.

Day 2 · 4 stops

  1. Fort Sumter

    Liberty Square ferry

    The island fort where the first shots of the Civil War were fired in 1861, reached by a 30-minute ferry with views of the harbor.

  2. McLeod Plantation Historic Site

    James Island

    A Sea Island cotton plantation whose tours center the lives of the enslaved people and their descendants who lived there.

    Tip: Closed Mondays; guided tours run through the day.

  3. Angel Oak

    Johns Island

    A sprawling Southern live oak thought to be several hundred years old, with limbs that rest on the ground.

  4. Folly Beach

    A laid-back beach town with a long fishing pier, surf shops and seafood shacks — good for an evening on the sand.

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