Two Boroughs Larder, at 186 Coming Street, was opened by Josh and Heather Keeler in August 2011. The former convenience store turned eatery and provision store, with its daily changing menu of seasonal small plates, quickly became a go to spot for off duty chefs.
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The bottom tier of the Triple Shellfish Tower at the Ordinary includes Oysters on the half shell, peel & eat shrimp & lobster cocktail.
The Ordinary Oyster Bar, located at 544 King Street, was opened in December 2012, by chef Mike Lata and his business partner Adam Nemirow. For their second venture together, they applied their dedication to local ingredients and farm-to-table techniques from their first restaurant, FIG, to the classic oyster hall format. The Ordinary is set in the refurbished Bank of America Building, complete with 22-foot ceilings, and its menu celebrates the “merrior” of the Coastal Carolinas and the East Coast.
Mike Lata and Adam Nemirow opened FIG, one of Charleston's most celebrated restaurants, in 2003. Lata was the recipient of the prestigious James Beard Best Chef Southeast award in 2009, after being nominated in 2007 and 2006. A native New Englander, he worked in kitchens in Boston, New Orleans, Atlanta and France before landing in Charleston as the Executive Chef at Ciboulette in 1998 where he became an active member of the Southern Foodways Alliance, co-founder of the Charleston Slow Food convivium, and the Official Charleston Representative for the Charleston Convention & Visitors Bureau.
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The Charleston Museum was the first museum built in America. Founded in 1773 by the Charleston Library Society, and first opened to the public in 1824, its collections preserve and interpret the social and natural history of Charleston and the South Carolina coastal region.
A full-scale replica of the famed Confederate submarine H. L. Hunley stands in front of the Charleston Museum. The replica was designed from a painting by the Confederate artist Conrad Wise Chapman by Charleston Technical Education Center (now Trident Technical College) Mechanical Engineering Technology Department students, led by department head Gerald F. Teaster from 1966-1967. Its originally stood in the basement of the Citizens and Southern National Bank on Church Street before being moved to its current location.
The Confederate submarine, H.L. Hunley, helped usher in the era of modern naval warfare when it became the first submarine to sink an enemy warship.
Built in Mobile, Alabama by Horace L. Hunley, the 39.5-foot long hand-cranked propulsion system submarine was launched in July 1863 before being shipped by rail to Charleston. Then called Fish Boat, it sank on an initial training exercise that August 29, killing five members of her crew. Raised, it sank again that October 15, killing eight of her second crew, including the unlisted Hunley himself. After returning to service, on February 17, 1864, she attacked and, from a partially submerged position, sank the 1240-short ton screw sloop USS Housatonic on Union blockade duty in Charleston’s outer harbor.
Before she could return home from her maiden service voyage, she disappeared with her eight-man crew off Sullivan’s Island. Discovered in 1995 by a diving expedition led by author Clive Cussler, she was lifted from the ocean floor in 2000 and brought to the Warren Lasch Conservation Center, where a team of scientists is working to conserve her. Examination of recovered artifacts suggest that the Hunley was as close as 20 feet to the Housatonic when its deployed torpedo exploded, causing its own sinking.
The remains of the crew were also uncovered with the ship. Apart from the commander, Lieutenant George E. Dixon, the identity of the rest of the volunteer crewmen had long remained a mystery until physical anthropologist, Douglas Owsley and forensic genealogist Linda Abrams identified them as Frank Collins, Joseph F. Ridgaway, James A. Wicks, Arnold Becker, Corporal C. F. Carlsen, C. Lumpkin, and Augustus Miller. On April 17, 2004 the remains of the crew were laid to rest at Magnolia Cemetery in Charleston, South Carolina.
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The bottom tier of the Triple Shellfish Tower at the Ordinary includes Oysters on the half shell, peel & eat shrimp & lobster cocktail.
The Ordinary Oyster Bar, located at 544 King Street, was opened in December 2012, by chef Mike Lata and his business partner Adam Nemirow. For their second venture together, they applied their dedication to local ingredients and farm-to-table techniques from their first restaurant, FIG, to the classic oyster hall format. The Ordinary is set in the refurbished Bank of America Building, complete with 22-foot ceilings, and its menu celebrates the “merrior” of the Coastal Carolinas and the East Coast.
Mike Lata and Adam Nemirow opened FIG, one of Charleston's most celebrated restaurants, in 2003. Lata was the recipient of the prestigious James Beard Best Chef Southeast award in 2009, after being nominated in 2007 and 2006. A native New Englander, he worked in kitchens in Boston, New Orleans, Atlanta and France before landing in Charleston as the Executive Chef at Ciboulette in 1998 where he became an active member of the Southern Foodways Alliance, co-founder of the Charleston Slow Food convivium, and the Official Charleston Representative for the Charleston Convention & Visitors Bureau.
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The William Aiken House and Associated Railroad Structures, at 456 King Street, was built between 1807 and 1811, with an octagonal wing added in 1831, The domicile, one of the city's best Adamesque structures, was residence of William Aiken, the first President of the South Carolina Canal and Rail Road Co, America's first railroad to use a steam locomotive to pull a train of cars on a track in regular service. The property was inherited by Governor William Aiken Jr., who sold it in 1863 to the South Carolina Railroad Company, which later became a part of the Southern Railway System.
William Aiken House and Associated Railroad Structures National Register #66000698 (1966)
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