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Discover treasures—cultural, culinary, and historic—along Bay Street in Beaufort, South Carolina


Discover treasures—cultural, culinary, and historic—along Bay Street in Beaufort, South Carolina
Discover treasures—cultural, culinary, and historic—along Bay Street in Beaufort, South Carolina
But for all its weighty history, a light spirit pervades this Lowcountry strip
Illustrated map by Amelia Flower
Bejeweled at both ends by historic riverfront mansions and ancient live oaks, with a dynamic commercial district in between, Bay Street in downtown Beaufort seems a microcosm of the city: a place where Old South and New South peacefully coexist. Founded in 1711, Beaufort was the birthplace of secession, but the town was occupied by Union forces early in the Civil War and later spared Sherman’s torch. On nearby St. Helena Island, the 1862-founded Penn Center memorializes the country’s first school for freed slaves; Martin Luther King Jr. wrote his “I Have a Dream” speech there a century later. So plentiful are its pre-war and ....

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