Charleston Vacation Rentals

Why not buy a vacation rental in the grea city of Charleston in South Carolina. It is a great place to go on hoilday too. With great history, culture and often super vacation weather. There are some great historical sites in the area. Why not rent vacation accomodation. You might be able to find some villas or houses or apartments or condos if you are lucky. You might want to hire the accomodation, rent, renting, rental accomodation can be possible. Maybe you might want to buy or sell accomodation.

The Charleston area is served by Charleston International Airport, which is the busiest passenger airport in the state of South Carolina.

Charleston is well-known across the United States and beyond for its unique culture, which blends West African, traditional southern American and French elements.

Charleston is a city in Berkeley and Charleston counties in the US state of South Carolina.

The old city is located on a peninsula at the point where, as Charlestonians say, "The Ashley and the Cooper Rivers come together to form the Atlantic Ocean." The entire peninsula is very low, some of it is landfill material, and as such, it frequently floods during heavy rains, storm surges and unusually high tides. The city limits have expanded across the Ashley River from the peninsula encompassing the majority of West Ashley as well as James Island and some of Johns Island. The city limits also have expanded across the Cooper River encompassing Daniel Island and the Cainhoy area. North Charleston blocks any expansion up the peninsula, and Mount Pleasant occupies the land directly east of the Cooper River.

The Charleston-North Charleston Metropolitan Statistical Area consists of three counties: Charleston, Berkeley, and Dorchester.

Charleston has a humid subtropical climate (Köppen climate classification Cfa), with mild winters, hot, humid summers, and significant rainfall all year long. Summer is the wettest season; almost half of the annual rainfall occurs during the summer months in the form of thundershowers, which is an effect similar to the monsoons found in Southern Asia.

The tidal rivers (Wando, Cooper, Stono, and Ashley) are evidence of a submergent or drowned coastline. In other words, the original rivers had a lower base line, but as the ocean rose or the land sank, the landform was changed. There is a submerged river delta off the mouth of the harbor, and the rivers are deep, affording a good location for a port. The rising of the ocean may be due to melting of glacial ice during the end of the ice age.

The city proper consists of six distinct areas: the Peninsula/Downtown, West Ashley, Johns Island, James Island, Daniel Island, and the Cainhoy Peninsula.

In recent decades, the urban

The Port of Charleston consists of five terminals. Three are on the Harbor and the other two are on the Cooper River just north of Charleston's bustling harbor.

Piers

Columbus Street Terminal
North Charleston Terminal
Union Pier Terminal
Veterans Terminal
Wando Welch Terminal

A new terminal is being planned on the former Naval Shipyard Grounds to accommodate the growing needs of the port.

Not far from Charleston is the location of Fort Moultrie, which was instrumental in delivering a critical defeat to the British in the American Revolutionary War, and Fort Sumter, the reputed site of the "first shot" of the American Civil War. Patriot's Point, located across the river in nearby Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, is also home to the aircraft carrier USS Yorktown as well as several other naval vessels

As an old colonial city, Charleston has a wide variety of museums and historical attractions. The Old Exchange and Customs House in downtown Charleston, finished in 1771, is arguably the third most important Colonial building in the nation (behind Faneuil Hall in Boston, Massachusetts and Independence Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania). The building features a dungeon which held various signers of the Declaration of Independence, and also hosted events for George Washington in 1791, and the ratification of the US Constitution in 1788. It has also served as a U.S. post office, the first Confederate post office, and was used by the United States Coast Guard.

The Arthur Ravenel, Jr. Bridge across the Cooper River opened on July 16, 2005, and was the largest cable stayed bridge in the Americas. The bridge links Mount Pleasant with downtown Charleston.

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