Small-Group Tour: Charleston Old Walled City Historical Walking Tour
Reviews Summary
Mixed reviews. Some found the tour excellent, informative, and engaging, deepening their appreciation for Charleston. Others were disappointed due to guides being hard to understand or the tour not meeting expectations.
Features
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
2 hours
- Local guide
- All taxes, fees and handling charges
- Transportation to/from attractions
- Hotel pickup and drop-off
- Mobile or paper ticket accepted
- Wheelchair accessible
- Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
- Service animals allowed
- Public transportation options are available nearby
You have found the best tour in Charleston! Our Small Group Tour takes 15 people max, allowing for questions and photo opps. This leisurely stroll through the city's oldest neighborhoods is a 2-hour guided experience. Follow your licensed guide as they delve into the history, legends, and culture of Charleston,...
- Duration 2 Hours
- Group Tour
- Max 15 people in the group
- 1
Circular Congregational Church
This congregation has worshipped on site since 1681. The church of the Colonial townspeople contains an incredible collection of clearly legible slate tombstones from the eighteenth century. Narration in the graveyard.
- Duration 20 Minutes•
- No Admission Ticket Required
- 2
The Powder Magazine
A city under constant seige built a gunpowder storage facility by 1713. It is the oldest surviving public structure between St Augustine and Williamsburg. Sidewalk narration.
- Duration 5 Minutes•
- No Admission Ticket Required
- 3
St. Philip's Church
The oldest Congregation in the Carolinas (1680) was the Church of Planters and Politicians. National figures, including signers of the Declaration and the Constitution , are at rest in the graveyard. Sidewalk and graveyard narration.
- Duration 10 Minutes•
- No Admission Ticket Required
- 4
French Huguenot Church
This elegant Gothic Revival Church is home to the only active French Calvinist congregation in North America. They have worshiped on site since 1706.
- Duration 5 Minutes•
- No Admission Ticket Required
- 5
Dock Street Theater
An 18th century style playhouse built as a WPA project in 1937. It is built on the very site of the first playhouse built in British North America in 1736.
- Duration 5 Minutes•
- No Admission Ticket Required
- 6
Broad Street
This intersection has been dedicated to public use since 1680. Ripleys Believe It or Not! deems it the only intersection worldwide where the four governing laws of mankind intersect. Sidewalk narration.
- Duration 5 Minutes•
- No Admission Ticket Required
- 7
Old Slave Mart Museum
The only surving structure in Charleston used as a showroom for slave sales houses a museum chronicling the sordid history of Slavery in the South Carolina Lowcountry.
- Duration 5 Minutes•
- No Admission Ticket Required
- 8
Old Exchange & Provost Dungeon
This Revolutionary War Museum was the scene of events that founded the Nation. President Washington was entertained here four times in 1791. Sidewalk narrative.
- Duration 7 Minutes•
- No Admission Ticket Required
- 9
St. Michael's Church
the oldest surving church(1761) was targeted during the British Seige in 1780 and the Federal Seige from 1863-1865. Two signers of the Constitution are at rest in the graveyard.
- Duration 7 Minutes•
- No Admission Ticket Required
- 10
Rainbow Row
A grouping of 18th century commercial buildings painted lovely pastels that harken back to Charleston's early connections to Barbados, Antigua and Nevis. Sidewalk Narration.
- Duration 5 Minutes•
- No Admission Ticket Required
- 11
South of Broad
Grand waterfront mansions, many built in the first half of the 19th century as party palaces for the Winter Season. It was from one of these houses the General Pierre Beauregard gave orders to Fire at Fort Sumter, commencing the first battle of the Civil War.Sidewalk narration.
- Duration 10 Minutes•
- No Admission Ticket Required
- 12
Fort Sumter National Monument
View Fort Sumter from the High Battery seawall. Hear the story of the siege and bombardment of both Fort Sumter and Charleston's civilian population. Hear about the dramatic fall of the city after 587 days.Sidewalk narrative.
- Duration 8 Minutes•
- No Admission Ticket Required
- 13
Nathaniel Russell House
We enter the garden at the Russell House (1808) to discuss horticulture and garden design. We discuss the layout of a an 18th century Charleston property. And then there is the story of the joggling board! Garden narration, no house admittance.
- Duration 10 Minutes•
- No Admission Ticket Required
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