HIGHLIGHTS
1 White Point Gardens
2 Edmonston-Alston House
3 Nathaniel Russel House
4 Rainbow Row
5 The Battery
6 Miles Brewton House
7 Stoll's Alley
8 St. Michael's Episcopal
CHARLESTOWNE
"Charlestowne" (aka South of Broad) is the neighborhood designation for the lower part of the peninsular city. It is historically appropriate, as the area contains some of the oldest houses and public buildings in the city. They include St. Michael's Church, constructed 1752-61, when the Church of England was part of the colonial establishment. White Point Garden is named for the White Point or Oyster Point, a sun-bleached shell bank at the tip of the peninsula, found by English settlers in 1670.
HIGHLIGHTS
1 The Powder Magazine
2 St. Phillip's Episcopal
3 St. Phillip's cemetery
4 Circular Church
5 The Old Slave Museum
6 The French Huguenot Church
7 The Gibbes Museum
THE FRENCH QUARTER
"The French Quarter" is also a recent designation. The name was coined in the 1970s, when the block of historic warehouses, now containing the Lodge Alley Inn, was to give way to a high-rise condo development. To help save it, the block was made a National Register site, on the premise that many properties had been owned by people of French descent. The name now covers a wider neighborhood, and has gained cachet from the monthly French Quarter Art Walk.
HIGHLIGHTS
1 Children's Museum
2 Aiken-Rhett House
3 Mannigault House
4 Visitor's Center
5 Charleston Museum
6 Emmanuel AME
WRAGGSBOROUGH
"Wraggborough-Mazyckborough" includes two historic suburbs, one developed by the heirs of John Wragg ca. 1800, the other by Alexander Mazyck (Ma-ZEEK) ca. 1786. Alexander Street was the center street of Mazyckborough. Streets of Wraggborough mostly are named for various family members: Charlotte, John, Judith, etc. Wragg Mall and Wragg Square are green spaces given to the city by the family. The Joseph Manigault House, ca. 1803, is a major tourist destination.
HIGHLIGHTS
1 Avery Research Center
2 Colonial Lake
3 The College of Charleston
4 The Old City Jail
5 Cannon Park
HARLESTON VILLAGE
"Harleston Village" was laid out for the Harleston family in 1770, but the name has been expanded over other historic neighborhoods. Streets were named for prominent political fi gures of the day—Bull, Gadsden and Rutledge of South Carolina, and Montagu, Wentworth and Barre of Britain. The Avery Research Center for African-American History and Culture, and the Memminger Auditorium, a Spoleto venue, are important landmarks of this neighborhood.
HIGHLIGHTS
1 St. Stephen's Church
2 Gaillard Auditorium
3 William Rhett House
ANSONBOROUGH
"Ansonborough" was Charleston’s earliest suburb, laid out for Captain George Anson in 1745-46. George and Anson streets commemorate the founder, who tradition says won the land in a card game. After profi tably seizing a Spanish treasure fl eet, he was created Baron Anson, and later First Lord of the Admiralty. Ansonborough was mostly rebuilt in the Greek Revival after the great fi re of 1838. The designation has been expanded to include other historic neighborhoods: Rhettsbury, Middlesex and the Laurens Lands.
HIGHLIGHTS
1 Karpeles Manuscript Museum
2 Morris Brown AME
ELLIOTBOROUGH/CANONBOROUGH
"Cannonborough and Elliottborough" are two historic neighborhoods, the one named for Daniel Cannon, who built lumber mills and houses in the area before 1804, the other developed by the Elliott family around the same time. The chief traffi c arteries, Cannon and Spring streets, have brought people into the city from the Ashley River bridges since the early nineteenth century. Suburban villas built for planters, and historic churches distinguish the area.
