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The Battery, Charleston, SC

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The Battery

Stroll the harbor seawall promenade past antebellum mansions to the oaks and cannons of White Point Garden.

East Battery and Murray Blvd at White Point Garden · Charleston, SC

About The Battery

The Battery is a seawall and promenade at the tip of the Charleston peninsula, where the Ashley and Cooper Rivers meet to form the harbor. You walk past antebellum mansions such as the Edmondston-Alston House, with Fort Sumter and Castle Pinckney visible across the water. At the point is White Point Garden, a city park with oak trees, a central gazebo, Civil War-era cannons and monuments. The seawall has been a public promenade since 1838.

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