Historic market complex in downtown Charleston established in the 1790s, the market stretches for four city blocks from the architecturally-significant Market Hall, through a continuous series of one-story market sheds
General Information
Night Market (seasonal, typically Friday and Saturday): 6:30pm to 10:30pm
How to Get There
From Charleston (0 mi): Travel through downtown Charleston to the Historic District, head to Market Street between Meeting Street and East Bay Street, and arrive at the Charleston City Market at 188 Meeting Street.
Overview
The Charleston City Market is a National Historic Landmark stretching four city blocks from Market Hall on Meeting Street to East Bay Street. Established in the 1790s as the Centre Market, it replaced the Beef Market that burned in 1796, and Market Hall, designed by Edward B. White, was added in the early 1840s. For most of the 19th century it was where area farms and plantations sold beef and produce, and where locals gathered.
Today the market sheds are filled with vendors selling souvenirs, jewelry, and Gullah sweetgrass baskets. Market Hall itself is a Greek Revival building modeled on ancient temples, with four Doric columns and decorative rams' heads and bucrania, symbols of a meat market, in the entablature.
This article uses material from the Wikipedia article "City Market (Charleston, South Carolina)", which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0
