Monday 11-19 our First day in Charleston - Fort Sumter

We are staying in the Charleston area until after Thanksgiving. We rented a car and began our adventure at the visitors center. The building is located almost in the heart of the historical district. We decided taking a tour, including Fort Sumter and one of the old houses would be a great start. The day was cloudy so the ferry ride over to Fort Sumter was chilly. We met a couple that is traveling in the motor home from Oregon, but they stopped in Muskegon and we shared some other locations with them.

Everyone (in the tour industries) is very proud of Charlestons place in history. Some things that struck me

South Caroline lost more men in the Revolutionary war than any other state. There was a rebellion against the stamp tax in Charleston long before the Boston Tea party. Rice was the main corp here not cotton. 

There are hundreds of little tidbits that you get just walking around this very old and historical city. Our first stop on the tour was the Ferry ride and then the Fort.

The Arthur Ravenel Jr. Bridge, also known as the New Cooper River Bridge, is a cable-stayed bridge over the Cooper River in South Carolina, connecting downtown Charleston to Mount Pleasant. The eight lane bridge satisfied the capacity of U.S. Route 17 when it opened in 2005 to replace two obsolete cantilever truss bridges. The bridge has a main span of 1,546 feet (471 m), the third longest among cable-stayed bridges in the Western Hemisphere. It was built using the design-build method and was designed by Parsons Brinckerhoff.

This is a Secession Chair one of six used
by the delegates to the Secession convention.

Castle Pinckney was a small masonry fortification constructed by the United States government by 1810 in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina.^[2][3] It was used very briefly as a prisoner-of-war camp (six weeks) and artillery position during the American Civil War. It was named to theNational Register of Historic Places in 1970.^[1]

Fort Sumter