Charleston Historic Neighborhoods Walking Tour

We invite you to join our Small Group Tour of 15 maximum to allow for questions and photo opps. Never in a hurry, our guides have a deep knowledge of both Charleston and National history, and sometimes your questions determine whether we turn right or left at the next intersection! Our hope is that when we part ways, you will share our love of Charleston, America's Most Historic City!
So stroll with us through Charleston's oldest neighborhoods on this 2-hour walking tour. Follow your licensed guide as they provide history, legends, and cultural insight into this great American city. Discover the ancient French Quarter and tour past proud mansions South of Broad Street, virtually intact blocks of 200 year old houses that are among the very best in North America. The your ends at the "High Cotton" mansions lining Charleston's High Battery. There, take in panoramic views of Charleston harbor and Fort Sumter, where the first shots of the American Civil War were fired.

Meeting Point

108 Meeting St

108 Meeting St, Charleston, SC 29401, USA

We meet at the corner of Meeting Street and Chalmers Street

What's included:

• Local guide
• All taxes, fees and handling charges

Not included:

• Transportation to/from attractions
• Hotel pickup and drop-off

What to expect:

Duration: 2 hours

Circular Congregational Church

150 Meeting St, Charleston, 29401-2218, South Carolina

This congregation has worshipped on site since 1681. The church of the Colonial townspeople contains an incredible collection of clearly legible slate tombstones from the eighteenth century. Narration in the graveyard.

20 minutes

The Powder Magazine

79 Cumberland St, Charleston, 29401-3112, South Carolina

A city under constant seige built a gunpowder storage facility by 1713. It is the oldest surviving public structure between St Augustine and Williamsburg. Sidewalk narration.

5 minutes

St. Philip's Church

142 Church St, , Charleston, 29401-2898, South Carolina

The oldest Congregation in the Carolinas (1680) was the Church of Planters and Politicians. National figures, including signers of the Declaration and the Constitution , are at rest in the graveyard. Sidewalk and graveyard narration.

10 minutes

French Huguenot Church

136 Church St, At the corner of Church and Queen sts., Charleston, 29401-2802, South Carolina

This elegant Gothic Revival Church is home to the only active French Calvinist congregation in North America. They have worshiped on site since 1706.

5 minutes

Dock Street Theater

135 Church St, , Charleston, 29401-2899, South Carolina

An 18th century style playhouse built as a WPA project in 1937. It is built on the very site of the first playhouse built in British North America in 1736.

5 minutes

Four Corners of Law

Broad St, Charleston, SC 29401, USA

This intersection has been dedicated to public use since 1680. Ripleys Believe It or Not! deems it the only intersection worldwide where the four governing laws of mankind intersect. Sidewalk narration.

5 minutes

Old Slave Mart Museum

6 Chalmers St, , Charleston, 29401-3005, South Carolina

The only surving structure in Charleston used as a showroom for slave sales houses a museum chronicling the sordid history of Slavery in the South Carolina Lowcountry.

5 minutes

Old Exchange & Provost Dungeon

122 E Bay St, , Charleston, 29401-2103, South Carolina

This Revolutionary War Museum was the scene of events that founded the Nation. President Washington was entertained here four times in 1791. Sidewalk narrative.

7 minutes

St. Michael's Church

71 Broad St, Charleston, 29401-2902, South Carolina

the oldest surving church(1761) was targeted during the British Seige in 1780 and the Federal Seige from 1863-1865. Two signers of the Constitution are at rest in the graveyard.

7 minutes

Rainbow Row

83-107 E Bay St # 107, , Charleston, 29401-2544, South Carolina

A grouping of 18th century commercial buildings painted lovely pastels that harken back to Charleston's early connections to Barbados, Antigua and Nevis. Sidewalk Narration.

5 minutes

The Battery

Charleston, SC 29401, USA

Grand waterfront mansions, many built in the first half of the 19th century as party palaces for the Winter Season. It was from one of these houses the General Pierre Beauregard gave orders to Fire at Fort Sumter, commencing the first battle of the Civil War.Sidewalk narration.

10 minutes

Fort Sumter National Monument

340 Concord Street, , Charleston, 29482-9748, South Carolina

View Fort Sumter from the High Battery seawall. Hear the story of the siege and bombardment of both Fort Sumter and Charleston's civilian population. Hear about the dramatic fall of the city after 587 days.Sidewalk narrative.

8 minutes

Nathaniel Russell House

51 Meeting St, , Charleston, 29401-2536, South Carolina

We enter the garden at the Russell House (1808) to discuss horticulture and garden design. We discuss the layout of a an 18th century Charleston property. And then there is the story of the joggling board! Garden narration, no house admittance.

10 minutes