For other uses, see Charleston. Charleston is a city in the counties of Berkeley and Charleston in the U.S. state of South Carolina. The city was founded as Charlestown or Charles Towne, Carolina in 1670, and moved to its present location in 1680. Up until 1800, Charleston was the fifth largest city in North America, behind Philadelphia, New York City, Boston, and Quebec City. It adopted its present name in 1783. Also known as The Holy City (due to the numerous steeples which dot the city's skyline), Charles ...

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Charleston's unique (though vanishing) dialect has long been noted in the South and elsewhere, for the singular attributes it possesses. Alone among the various regional Southern dialects, Charlestonian speakers inglide long mid vowels and one hears elements often associated with speech in Canada, such as the raising for /ay/ and /aw/. Some attribute these unique features of Charleston's speech to its early settlement by French Huguenots and Sephardic Jews, both of whic ...

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Charleston South Carolina - Early history of Charleston. After Charles II of England was restored to the English throne, he granted the chartered Carolina territory to eight of his loyal friends, known as the Lords Proprietor, in 1663. It took seven years before the Lords could arrange for settlement, the first being that of Charles Town. The community was established by English settlers in 1670 across the Ashley River from the city's current location. It was soon chosen by Anthony Ashley-Cooper, one of the Lords ...

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There are 110,483 people in the city, organized into 47,791 households and 24,149 families. The population density is 384.7/km² (996.5/mi²). Projections have the city growing immensely with annexation to almost 130,000+ by 2008 and 150,000 by 2012. There are 44,563 housing units at an average density of 177.4/km² (459.5/mi²). The racial makeup of the city is 63.08% White, 34.00% Black or African American, 1.24% Asian, 0.15% Native American, 0.06% Pacific Islander, 0.54% from other races, and 0.94% from two or more races. 1 ...

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Charlestonians today fondly refer to their city as The Holy City, and describe it as the site where the "Ashley and Cooper Rivers merge into Charleston Harbor and then forms the Atlantic Ocean." America's most-published etiquette expert, Marjabelle Young Stewart, has recognized the city ever since 1995 as the "best-mannered" city in the U.S, a claim lent credence by the fact that it has the only Livability Court in the country. Charleston is a tourist mecca, with streets lined with grand live oaks draped with Span ...

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The Old Exchange and Customs House in downtown Charleston was finished in 1771. It was to be The Royal Exchange & Customs House. It is the third most important Colonial building in the nation. The other two are Faneuil Hall in Boston and Independence Hall in Philadelphia. This building has had many historic events happen in its walls. It has a dungeon which has held signers of the Declaration of Independence and many other South Carolina Patriots. It has also housed events for George Washington in 1791, The U.S. Constitution ratification ...

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According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 326.5 km² (126.1 mi²). 251.2 km² (97.0 mi²) of it is land and 44.3 km² (17.1 mi²) of it is water. The total area is 15.00% water. The old city is on a peninsula at the point where, as Charlestonians say "The Ashley and the Cooper Rivers come together to form the Atlantic Ocean." The entire peninsula is very low, some of it fillmaterial, and it frequently floods during heavy rains or unusually high tides. The city limits have expanded across the Ashley River from ...

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