Charleston (South Carolina) - Places

32°46N 79°56W, pop (2000e) 96 600. Seat of Charleston Co, SE South Carolina, USA; a port on the Atlantic Ocean, at the mouths of Ashley and Cooper Rivers; the oldest city in the state, founded in 1670; survived attacks by a British fleet in 1776 and 1779; finally captured and held by the British, 1780–2; the Confederate attack on nearby Fort Sumter (12–13 Apr 1861) began the Civil War; evacuated by Confederate forces in 1865 after a 2-year siege; devastated by an earthquake in 1886; badly damaged by hurricane Hugo in 1989; airfield; railway; fertilizers, chemicals, steel, asbestos, cigars, paper products, textiles; site of a US naval and air force base; tourist centre; Charleston Museum, Old Slave Mart Museum and Gallery, Gibbes Art Gallery, several old colonial buildings.

Charleston may refer to:

Charleston (dance) USS Charleston, the name of several ships of the United States Navy Charleston, novel by Alexandra Ripley Charleston (Texas Navy), a ship built for the Texas Navy

Places

In New Zealand:

Charleston, New Zealand

In Scotland:

Charleston, Dundee, an area of Dundee Charleston, Angus, near Dundee Charleston, Renfrewshire, near Paisley

In the United Kingdom:

Charleston, Sussex, the name of a house in Sussex, United Kingdom, where the Bloomsbury painters Duncan Grant and Vanessa Bell lived and worked

In the United States:

Charleston, South Carolina A major Southern city and port Charleston, West Virginia, the state capital of West Virginia

In the United States it may also refer to:

Charleston, Arkansas Charleston, Illinois Charleston, Kentucky Charleston, Mississippi Charleston, Missouri Charleston, New York, located in central New York state Charleston, Staten Island, a neighborhood of Staten Island, New York City South Charleston, Ohio Charleston, Oregon Charleston County, South Carolina North Charleston, South Carolina Charleston, Tennessee

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