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State: South Carolina

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Historic place

Charleston, SC

Dock Street Theatre: Fire, Performance, and Charleston Lore

The first purpose-built theater on Dock Street opened in 1736; the present theater occupies the remodeled Planters Hotel and reopened in 1937.
Legend
Historic place

Charleston, SC

Magnolia Cemetery: Charleston’s Rural Cemetery

Dedicated in 1850, Magnolia is a rural cemetery shaped by winding drives, water, monuments, changing public-health ideas, and memorial culture.
Legend
Historic place

Charleston, SC

Old Exchange and Provost Dungeon History

Completed in 1771, the Exchange served as a commercial exchange, custom house, prison, post office, city hall, and museum.
Legend
Historic place

Charleston, SC

Unitarian Churchyard: History and the Annabel Lee Legend

The congregation began in 1774, and its Gothic Revival church and landscaped churchyard reflect nineteenth-century Charleston religious and garden history.
Legend

Haunted towns and cities

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Charleston, SC

Haunted Charleston: Historic Places, Graveyards, and Legends

Charleston is a living South Carolina Lowcountry community whose documented history and preservation landscape explain why ghost traditions developed around selected streets, buildings, and burial grounds.
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