Attractions
Some of Charleston’s leading attractions for tourism include the South Carolina Aquarium, the Audubon Swamp Garden, Cypress Gardens, the Children’s Museum of the Lowcountry, the American Military Museum at Aquarium Wharf, the Old Exchange Building, the Jewish Coming Street Cemetery which was established in 1762 by the Sephardic community that began to arrive in Charleston shortly before, Fort Moultrie, Fort Sumter, Patriot’s Point where the U.S.S. Yorktown is moored, Boone Hall Plantation, Magnolia Plantation, Middleton Place, and the White Point Park and Gardens, better known as Battery Park. The U.S.S. Hunley, a Civil War era submarine – the first in the world – that was both commissioned and lost in service to the Union, was raised from the ocean floor a few years ago and has been conserved for viewing is on display at the Warren Lasch Conservation Laboratory.
Population inside the city limits: 104,883
Metro area population: 562,666
Elevation: 118 feet above sea level
Area inside city limits: 97.0 square miles
Average daily temperature in January: 49.3 degrees Fahrenheit
Average daily temperature in July: 82.1 degrees Fahrenheit