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Fort Sumter National Monument, Charleston, South Carolina, USA
The attack on Fort Sumter marked the official beginning of the American Civil War—a war that lasted four years, cost the lives of more than 620,000 Americans, and freed 3.9 million enslaved people from bondage.
Aiken-Rhett House Museum, Charleston, South Carolina, USA
The Aiken-Rhett House Museum, c. 1820, is a unique survivor. The house descended in the Aiken-Rhett family for 142 years until it was sold to The Charleston Museum and opened to the public in 1975.
Magnolia Plantation, Summerville, South Carolina, USA
It is the oldest public tourist site in the Lowcountry, and the oldest public garden in America, opening its doors to visitors in 1870 to view the thousands of beautiful flowers and plants in its famous gardens.
Penn Center, St Helena Island, South Carolina, USA
The campus of the former Penn School, one of the nation’s first schools for formerly enslaved people, is one of the most significant African American institutions in existence today.
Tybee Island Light Station & Museum, Tybee Island, Georgia, USA
The Tybee Island Light Station is one of America’s most intact having all of its historic support buildings on its five-acre site. Rebuilt several times the current light station displays its 1916 day mark with 178 stairs and a First Order Fresnel lens.
Wormsloe Historic Site, Savannah, Georgia, USA
The site includes a picturesque 1.5 miles oak avenue, the ruins of Jones’ fortified house built of tabby, a museum, and a demonstration area interpreting colonial daily life.
Owens-Thomas House & Slave Quarters, Savannah, Georgia, USA
One of the finest examples of Regency architecture in America as well as the original slave quarters designed to house the enslaved men, women and children who maintained it.
Fort Frederica National Monument, St Simons Island, Georgia, USA
Fort Frederica National Monument preserves the archaeological remnants of a fort and town built by James Oglethorpe between 1736 and 1748 to protect the southern boundary of the British colony of Georgia from Spanish raids.
Fort Clinch, Fernandina Beach, Florida, USA
A row of cannons pointing across the St. Mary’s River into Georgia are silent testimony to the strategic importance of Fort Clinch during the Civil War.