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Taylored Tours of Charleston
1.888.449.TOUR
843.832.3321
General History Tour
This tour covers 110 points of interest pertaining to Charleston’s rich history. Some specific highlights may include the City Market, Dock Street Theater, the Old Exchange Building, the Charleston Battery, the Old Citadel, the Four Corners of Law, and views of Ft. Sumter.
Tour time- 9:00am, 11:30am, 2:15pm daily
Cost- $15.50 adult $8.50 children
Tour departs from the Charleston Visitors Center and lasts 75 minutes.
Special Interest Tour
Taylored Tours of Charleston is one of few tour companies that allow you customize your own excursion to suit your individual interests. Choose to learn about colonial history, the Revolutionary or Civil War, historic architecture, plantations or house museums, the emancipation of slavery, or maybe you are interested in arbitrary facts about The Holy City that never made it to the history books. Whatever your interests may be, use this ninety minute tour to discover a different aspect of Charleston.
Tour time- appointment only
Cost- $18 all ages
General History/ House Museum Tour
This combination tour includes the 75 minutes of history tour in addition to a guided tour of one house museum. Choose from the Edmonston-Alston House or Heyward Washington House at 9:00am. The Nathaniel Russell House tours at 11:30 am. The Heyward-Washington House or the Aiken-Rhett House tours at 2:15. Each of the houses covers a different period of history.
Cost- $25.50 adult $14.50 children
Plantation Tour
The Plantation tour is a private, guided tour that takes your on a round-trip journey up the Ashley River to one of two Plantation houses, both of which are National Historic Monuments. Your first choice is the Middleton Place Plantation, whose construction began in 1741. The gardens and sculptured terraces were designed by Henry Middleton, President of the First Continental Congress. The second choice is the Magnolia Plantation, belonging to three centuries of the Drayton family. Additional points of interest are the Orientation Theater, Greenhouse, petting zoo, Antebellum Cabin, horticultural maze, biblical garden, and wildlife observation tour. The Nature Boat and Audubon Swamp Garden are also available for an additional cost.
Cost- $50 all ages
Tour lasts four hours and is available by appointment only.
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