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Location:
USA,
South Carolina, Charleston
Category:
College
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Description:
View of the college campus,
Stern Center, The Cistern, Marion
and Wayland H Cato Jr Center for the
Arts
Location Information:
Charleston is a city in Charleston
County, South Carolina in the U.S.
state of South Carolina. It is the
largest city and the county seat of
Charleston County. The City is also
the oldest city in the state of
South Carolina and the second
largest city in the state. The
city's original name was Charles
Towne in 1670, and it moved to its
present location (Oyster Point) from
a location on the west bank of the
Ashley River in 1680; it adopted its
present name in 1783. In 1690,
Charleston was the fifth largest
city in North America, and remained
among the ten largest cities in the
United States through the 1840
census.
Charleston is known as The Holy City
due to the prominence of churches on
the low-rise cityscape, particularly
the numerous steeples which dot the
city's skyline, and for the fact
that it was one of the few cities in
the original thirteen colonies to
provide religious tolerance, albeit
restricted to non-catholics. Many
Huguenots found their way to
Charleston. Charleston was also one
of the first colonial cities to
allow Jews to practice their faith
without restriction. Kahal Kadosh
Beth Elohim, founded in 1749, is the
fourth oldest Jewish congregation in
the continental United States. Brith
Sholom Beth Israel is the oldest
Orthodox synagogue in the South,
founded by Ashkenazi (German and
Central European Jews) Jews in the
mid-19th century.
The city of Charleston is located
just south of the mid-point of South
Carolina's coastline, at the
confluence of the Ashley and Cooper
rivers. Charleston's name is derived
from Charles Towne, named after King
Charles II of England.
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