Shoppers at the City Market in Charleston
Charleston has some of the most beautiful and unusual homes in America. One critic has called Charleston the most friendly city in the United States. Charleston is all of these things and much more.
SHIRLEY GRIFFITH: Plan your visit to Charleston for early spring, late autumn or the winter months. The citizens of Charleston will tell you their lovely city is not fun in the summer. It is extremely hot. The summer heat is important to the history of Charleston.
Early settlers owned huge farms called plantations. In the seventeen hundreds, these farms produced a plant called indigo which is used to make cloth the color blue.
Many plantation owners forced slaves to do the work needed to grow indigo in the extreme heat. Slavery became important to the economy of Charleston. The plantations, indigo and slavery are part of the history of the city.
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STEVE EMBER: At least three Indian tribes were living in the area that became Charleston when Spanish explorers arrived in Fifteen-Twenty-One. The Spanish explorers, and later, French explorers tried to establish settlements near that area but none lasted.
English settlers first came to the area in sixteen seventy. They established a town. They called it Charles Town in honor of the English King, Charles the Second. The people of the city changed its name to Charleston in seventeen eighty-three.
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