When Joseph Shute, a Quaker merchant, purchased the island in the middle of Charleston Harbor in 1746, there was only a small sliver of solid land. Most residents at the time considered the investment ...

As hot as it’s been the past few weeks, there’s probably no better place to be than on a boat exploring the Lowcountry’s waterways, many of which are full of stories. One of the sites people ask me ...

Castle Pinckney, at Charleston, is a place little known to most students of the Civil War. Roberts, an historian of 42nd Georgia and a board member of several historical organizations, and Locke, ...