Shrimp and Grits

Shrimp & Grits at the Charleston Crab House on S. Market St.

Something else we ate today that we’d never tasted before was Kobe beef burgers. Kobe beef is raised in Japan and it has an extraordinary flavor. If you ever have the opportunity to eat Kobe beef, we think you would be pleased.

The museum we went to today is The Old Exchange and Dungeon. A lot of Charleston history is displayed in this museum. The brickwork of the dungeon was beautiful, with cascading arches throughout. A lot of pirates were held in the dungeons, and eventually hung on a point of land where other pirates could view the bodies hanging from the gallows, thereby keeping other pirates at bay and ending the piracy in Charles Town. Blackbeard was not one of them hung on the gallows, but he terrorized Charles Town (as it was called in those days.) Blackbeard was killed in North Carolina and beheaded. It’s reported after he was beheaded, his body swam around the ship three times before it sank.

The Grand Hall on the upper floor of The Old Exchange was exquisite. President George Washington visited Charles Town in 1791 and was entertained in this grand hall. He also went to the St. Michael’s Church and history states he “sat in pew #43”. You know you’re an important person when history states what church pew you sat on.

Tomorrow we are leaving this great area of our nation and heading further south. We’ve enjoyed Charleston so much, we want to spend more time here when we make the trip north.