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Article: Combine tour of Fort Sumter with visit to Charleston, S.C.(Going Places)(Travel Q and A)

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April 2, 2006
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Byline: Madelyn Merwin

Q. We are planning to drive along the South Carolina coast this summer, and we want to stop in Charleston and spend some time. My wife wants to see the gardens and the plantations; I, on the other hand, would like to tour Fort Sumter. Can we do both?

A. Charleston personifies the Old South probably better than any other city, with more than 2,000 historic buildings, plantations and gardens. Seventy-three buildings predate the Revolutionary War in this city founded in 1670.

First, you can go to Fort Sumter, where the first shots of the Civil War were fired on April 12, 1861. The brick fort, built in the early 1800s, is on ...

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