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Originally Posted by mdovell
After Christmas to 1/2. I'm kinda mixed on the tea tour we were just quoted at $100 a person
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$100 per person does sound like too much for that. The Charleston Tea Plantation tour is nice if the weather is nice. I think it's still free except for the trolley tour:
https://charlestonteagarden.com/
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Originally Posted by KEB1786
Do you have any specific type of food for dinners?
- Fort Sumter, any of the various plantation in West Ashley (Magnolia, Middleton, Drayton Hall), various historic houses downtown.
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+1 Magnolia plantation has extensive Camelia Gardens that should be blooming at that time. They also have a small petting zoo if you have kids with you.
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Originally Posted by gentlearts
We just took the boat tour to Ft. Sumpter from Mt Pleasant yesterday. It was a gorgeous sunny day, and the view getting to the fort was enjoyable. Watching the pelicans and dolphins was amusing, too. The fort itself is just ok. If you do this on a cold or cloudy day, you will not enjoy it much.
If you enjoy military history, you can tour the two ships at Patriots Point.
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+1 for the Ft Sumpter tour also and good advice on the weather. If it's not warm it won't be much fun. We often have days in the 70's during the winter though.
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Originally Posted by gentlearts
If you watched Southern Charm, you would have seen that Thomas Ravenel was one of the main characters. He is of very poor character, and one one of the episodes, his elderly father said he didn’t use $5. bills because Abraham Lincoln was on them.....alluding to slavery.
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I wouldn't count on a sensationalist TV show for any kind of accuracy. That sounds like a made-for-TV anecdote. I'm sure the Ravenel family owned slaves but so did almost every other prominent family in Charleston's history. It's a sad, ugly part of reality but much of Charleston was built on and depended on slave labor. All of the historic plantations ran on slave labor. You're not really going
to avoid
places with a slave history if you want
to see much of historic Charleston.
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Originally Posted by Vaccinated Masker
Check out the Angel Oak on John's Island.
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+1 Again. Earlier this year I was driving NY clients around Johns Island walking tracts of land. Late morning we were going by Angel Oak and I said, "We're going
to take a break
to visit this tree." I think they thought I was crazy but they were duly impressed once they saw it. And they're still clients even though I might be crazy...
There's plenty of good suggestions covered here and a lot are weather dependent. If you want just an hour or two of relaxing looking at historic houses, pick a mid afternoon and start walking down Church St somewhere below Broad St. Meander around any alleys that strike your fancy and ogle the houses. Respect privacy of course but there's some pretty impressive gardens
to view through gates and entryways.
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