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Top 10 sights in Charleston

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   Fort Sumter

   Fort Sumter is an incomplete sea fort at the mouth of Charleston Harbor, South Carolina, where the battle that sparked the American Civil War took place.

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   USS Yorktown

   USS Yorktown is one of 24 Essex-class aircraft carriers built during World War II for the United States Navy.

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   H. L. Hunley

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   Fort Moultrie

   Fort Moultrie is a series of fortifications on Sullivan's Island, South Carolina, built to protect the city of Charleston, South Carolina.

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   Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church

   Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, colloquially known as Mother Emanuel, is a church in Charleston, South Carolina, founded in 1817.

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   USS Laffey

   USS Laffey (DD-724) is an Allen M. Sumner-class destroyer constructed during World War II, laid down and launched in 1943, and commissioned in February 1944.

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   Cathedral of Saint John the Baptist

   The Cathedral of St. John the Baptist is the mother church of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Charleston, located in Charleston, South Carolina.

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   Castle Pinckney

   Castle Pinckney is a small masonry fortification constructed by the United States government, in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina, in 1810.

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   Congregation Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim

   Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim is a Reform Jewish congregation and synagogue located in Charleston, South Carolina, in the United States.

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    Huguenot Church

    The Huguenot Church, also called the French Huguenot Church or the French Protestant Church, is a non-denominational Protestant church located at 136 Church Street in Charleston, South Carolina.

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   Fort Wagner

   Fort Wagner or Battery Wagner was a beachhead fortification on Morris Island, South Carolina, that covered the southern approach to Charleston Harbor. Named for deceased Lt.

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   Magnolia Plantation and Gardens (Charleston, South Carolina)

   Magnolia Plantation and Gardens (464 acres, 187.77 hectares) is a historic house with gardens located on the Ashley River at 3550 Ashley River Road west of Ashley, Charleston County, South Carolina.

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   Patriots Point

   Patriots Point Naval & Maritime Museum is a naval museum located in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, at the mouth of the Cooper River on the Charleston Harbor, across from Charleston.

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   Old Slave Mart

   The Old Slave Mart is a building located at 6 Chalmers Street in Charleston, South Carolina that once housed an antebellum-period slave-auction gallery.

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   Exchange and Provost Building

   The Old Exchange & Provost Dungeon, also known as the Custom House, and The Exchange, is a historic building at East Bay and Broad Streets in Charleston, South Carolina.

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   Charles Towne Landing

   Charles Towne Landing State Historic Site in the West Ashley area of Charleston, South Carolina, preserves the original site of the first permanent English settlement in Carolina.

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   St. Philip's Episcopal Church

   St. Philip's Church is a historic church at 142 Church Street in Charleston, South Carolina.

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   International African American Museum

   The International African American Museum (IAAM) is a museum of African-American history in Charleston, South Carolina, located at a former shipping wharf where approximately 40% of the nation's enslaved persons disembarked.

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   French Quarter

   The French Quarter is a historic district and a section of downtown Charleston, South Carolina, United States, that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

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    White Point Gardens

    White Point Garden is a 5.7 acre public park located in peninsular Charleston, South Carolina, at the tip of the peninsula. It is the southern terminus for the Battery, a defensive seawall and promenade.

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