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Spoleto – Nations Largest Arts Festival Piccolo Spoleto - Piccolo Spoleto (smaller version of Spoleto which is 2 weeks) is the perfect complement to the international scope of its parent festival and its 700 events in 17 days, transforms Charleston into an exhilarating celebration of performing, literary and visual arts. Southeastern Wildlife Exposition - A 3-day celebration of nature that has earned a reputation for excellence, SEWE now hosts the world's foremost experts in wildlife and nature art, as well as conservation research and environmental education. Charleston Food and Wine Festival Interesting Places to Visit Charlestown Landing – The first place settled in Charleston SC Patriots Point – One of the largest Naval museums of its kind in the world The USS Yorktown with the addition of other ships such as the destroyer USS Laffey, known as The Ship That Would Not Die. The Treasury class Coast Guard cutter Ingham would join the Patriots Point battle group along with the Balao class submarine Clamagore. Boone Hall Plantation - Boone Hall is also one of America's oldest working, living plantations. We have been continuously growing and producing crops for over 320 years. Fort Sumter - Fort Sumter was built following the War of 1812, as one of a series of fortifications on the southern U.S. coast. Construction began in 1827, and the structure was still unfinished in 1860, when the conflict began. Magnolia Plantation & Gardens - Founded in 1676 by the Drayton family, Magnolia Plantation has survived the centuries and witnessed the history of our nation unfold before it from the American Revolution through the Civil War and beyond. Middleton Place - National Historic Landmark and a carefully preserved 18th-century plantation that has survived revolution, Civil War, and earthquake Angel Oak Tree - is a Live Oak (Quercus Virginiana) that is a native species found throughout the Lowcountry (Costal Carolina). Believed to be in excess of 1500 years old. |
