The district builds on a decades-long effort to preserve the site’s industrial roots while embracing a creative future.

2. Henry’s Cheese Spread Many decades ago, long before Charleston’s restaurant scene exploded, a big night out involved Henry’s on Market Street, where white-jacketed waiters swooped in with trays of ...

These may sound fancy, but they’re really just a sweet pickle you make in your fridge. You’ll have a go-to gift on hand that’ll rival the offerings at classic spots like Jestine’s Kitchen. For extra ...

Grady Hendrix is gruesome. Or at least his books are, if you consider severed limbs, murderous puppets, and a flesh-eating rat orgy gruesome. He’s also a conundrum: the polite Southern gentleman who ...

David Warren may have discovered a unicorn in an old Charleston neighborhood west of the Ashley River. On a small bluff, less than a mile from Charles Towne Landing sits an almost one-acre lot with ...

Ever since the voyagers on the sailing ship Carolina slipped up the Ashley River in 1670 and founded Charles Towne, the Holy City’s rivers have been its lifeblood. For more than 200 years, the ...

A biomedical engineer might not be the most obvious choice to lead an international history museum, but Tonya Matthews has rarely pursued the obvious. Not in preschool, when she pestered her mother ...

About 10 miles south of Pawley’s Island lies Hobcaw Barony—a verdant expanse of land jutting into Winyah Bay and covering most of the peninsula between the Waccamaw River and the Atlantic Ocean.

A Welcoming Past Daisy’s Legacy Daisy Breaux Simonds was known for entertaining lavishly and hosting high-profile guests, including President Roosevelt when he visited Charleston for the West India ...

Today, this grand home in the heart of the Moultrieville Historic District on Sullivan’s Island, a stone’s throw from Fort Moultrie, looks like it has stood unchanged for more than 100 years. Its ...

There may have been a Bess, for the real Porgy was a reputed ladies’ man. Likewise, he enjoyed the “sportin’ life” at a gambling spot on Charleston Neck called the Bull Pen, where he’d spend time ...

Nigerian novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s wrote, “You travel to search, and you come back home to find yourself there.” That sums up Dennis’s return to Charleston in 2008. Having studied another ...