Charleston: High Point of the Low Country

It is easy to understand why Charleston is ranked as one of the country’s best-preserved cities.

Locals jokingly call Charleston “the Holy City” because when you look across its low skyline, you see so many spires and steeples piercing the view—181 of them, including from this one, Saint Michael’s Episcopal Church, where George Washington and Robert E. Lee both worshiped. Fred J. Eckert

“We are now at the highest ridge in Charleston,” our driver-guide announced as our 16 passenger carriage, pulled by two mules, moved along Horlbeck Alley onto King Street. “It’s 12 feet above sea level here.”

Ah, that explains why they call this area of South Carolina “the Low Country.”