The new town had become the fifth largest in North America by 1690. (The original site is now commemorated as Charles Towne Landing.) The second location was more defensible and had access to a fine natural harbor. This second settlement formally replaced the original Charles Town in 1680. The initial settlement quickly dwindled away and disappeared while another village-established by the settlers on Oyster Point at the confluence of the Ashley and Cooper rivers around 1672 -thrived. The settlers abandoned their alliance with the Westo in 1679 and allied with the Cusabo instead. The settlers initially allied with the Westo, a northern indigenous tribe that traded in enslaved Indians. Īt the time of European colonization, the area was inhabited by the indigenous Cusabo, whom the settlers declared war on in October 1671. Instead, local ordinances were passed by the provincial government, with day-to-day administration handled by the wardens and vestries of St Philip's and St Michael's Anglican parishes. Because the Carolina's Fundamental Constitutions was never ratified, however, Charles Town was never incorporated during the colonial period. Its governance, settlement, and development was to follow a visionary plan known as the Grand Model prepared for the Lords Proprietors by John Locke. Charles Town became the first comprehensively planned town in the Thirteen Colonies. These settlers established what was then called Charles Town at Albemarle Point, on the west bank of the Ashley River, a few miles northwest of the present-day city center.
In 1670, Governor William Sayle arranged for several shiploads of settlers from Bermuda and Barbados. King Charles II granted the chartered Province of Carolina to eight of his loyal friends, known as the Lords Proprietors, on March 24, 1663. Governor of South Carolina by whom it is most humbly dedicated to his Royal Highness George, Prince of Wales."
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"This map describing the scituation of the several nations of Indians to the NW of South Carolina was coppyed from a draught drawn & painted on a deer skin by an Indian Cacique and presented to Francis Nicholason Esqr. History Ī map of the "Several Nations of Indians to the Northwest of South Carolina" or the "Catawba Deerskin Map", an annotated copy of a hand-painted deerskin original made by a Catawba chief for Governor Francis Nicholson. In 2018, the city formally apologized for its role in the American slave trade. Charleston slave traders like Joseph Wragg were the first to break through the monopoly of the Royal African Company and pioneered the large-scale slave trade of the 18th century almost one-half of slaves imported to the United States arrived in Charleston. Ĭharleston's significance in American history is tied to its role as a major slave trading port. Population growth in the interior of South Carolina influenced the removal of the state government to Columbia in 1788, but Charleston remained among the ten largest cities in the United States through the 1840 census.
Charleston adopted its present spelling with its incorporation as a city in 1783. Election districts were organized according to Anglican parishes, and some social services were managed by Anglican wardens and vestries. It remained unincorporated throughout the colonial period its government was handled directly by a colonial legislature and a governor sent by Parliament. The 2020 population of the Charleston metropolitan area, comprising Berkeley, Charleston, and Dorchester counties, was 799,636 residents, the third-largest in the state, 8th-largest in the Deep South and the 74th-largest metropolitan statistical area in the United States.Ĭharleston was founded in 1670 as Charles Town, honoring King Charles II, at Albemarle Point on the west bank of the Ashley River (now Charles Towne Landing) but relocated in 1680 to its present site, which became the fifth-largest city in North America within ten years. Charleston had a population of 150,277 at the 2020 census. The city lies just south of the geographical midpoint of South Carolina's coastline on Charleston Harbor, an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean formed by the confluence of the Ashley, Cooper, and Wando rivers. state of South Carolina, the county seat of Charleston County, and the principal city in the Charleston metropolitan area. The downtown Charleston waterfront on The BatteryĬharleston is the largest city in the U.S.
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