Welcome to Downtown Charleston's first annual colonial military living history day!





Come one, come all to witness the military threats the young settlement of Charles Town faced in the early 18th-century! Charles Town was a walled city (one of the only in English North America) from the 1690s-1718, with some walls staying up into the 1780s. The young settlement had little to no military protection from Great Britain, and had to contend with pirates, Spaniards, Frenchmen, Native American foes, and other threats. How did Charles Town defend itself? Come find out!





See Spanish soldiers, Royal Navy sailors, redcoats, pirates, and militiamen. With admission to the Old Exchange Building and Provost Dungeon, you can see/take part in:



