Charleston, SC.

  

click photo to enlarge		 When we go to Young Harris GA. to take jewelry making classes we try to combine it with visiting other places and of course our grandkids in Alabama.  On this trip we flew into Charleston and started our trip there. It was an interesting town with a lot of old architecture. The picture to the left is the Charleston City Market, established in the 1790s, the market stretches for four city blocks from the architecturally-significant Market Hall, which faces Meeting Street, through a continuous series of one-story market sheds. Charleston only has about 8 remaining streets that are called cobblestones. But it is felt these stones are really stones used as ballast on ships arriving from England and discarded when the ship arrived.

click photo to enlarge		 The narrow house below is called  Charleston Single. The door facing the street opens no into the house but to a side porch called a piazza. The house are called singles because they are a single room wide. The colorful house below are called Rainbow Row. It represents the longest cluster of Georgian row houses in the United States or so we were told.

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