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Edmonston-Alston House
Overlooking Charleston Harbor, the 1828 Edmonston-Alston House was built by a Scottish shipping merchant and later renovated by rice-plantation mogul Charles Alston. It has remained in the Alston family ever since - in fact, the family still resides on the 3rd floor.
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Heyward-Washington House
This house built in 1772, belonged to Thomas Heyward Jr, a signer of the Declaration of Independence. Though the outside isn't much to look at, the interior contains some fine examples of Charleston-made mahogany furniture.
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Joseph Manigault House
Across the street from Charleston Museum is the neoclassic-style, Joseph Manigault House, once the showpiece of a French Huguenot family who made their fortune trading rum, sugar and rice.
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Nathaniel Russell House
Built by a Rhode Islander, known in Charleston as 'the king of the Yankees,' the 1808 Federal-style Nathaniel Russell House is noted especially for its spectacular, self-supporting spiral staircase and lush English garden.
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Old Exchange & Provost Dungeon
The Palladian Old Exchange & Provost Dungeon built in 1771 as an exchange and customs house for the busy port, was used as a dungeon prison for pirates and other outlaws.
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Old Slave Mart
The Old Slave Mart is part of South Carolina's painful past. Captured Africans were once stored here in the 'barracoon' (slave jail) before being taken to the mail hall and auctioned off to the highest bidder. Slaves stood on auction blocks to be inspected by wealthy plantation owners before being taken away to work the rows of cotton, indigo and tobacco. After the Civil War the market became a tenement building, before being turned into an African American crafts museum in 1938. The current museum was opened in 2007.
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