...y'all know how much we love touring historical sites...so we drove to
Fort Johnson on the northeast point of James Island...as with a lot of these old old forts...there's really not a lot left...
...The fort was constructed about 1708 and was named after the Proprietary Governor of the Carolinas...so it's pretty old by American standards...
...the bridge in the disance is the
Arthur Ravenel Jr. Bridge...
...so we wandered around the site...a marker of the
first shot of the Civil War...fired on Fort Sumter from this spot...
...Fort Sumter in the distance...we toured it when Scout was little...
...the Munitions House...
...from the Revolutionary War...
...aren't old buildings fascinating...
...old ironwork on the window...
...inside the Munitions House...
...another view inside...
...the barred door of the Munitions House...
...we couldln't find anything to tell us what these small round stone buildings were...
...this one appears to have a bell holder on top of it...
...there are no markers...and they are blocked off...
...probably because they are full of water...which is clear and you can see the bottom...they are not very deep...so probably just used for some sort of storage...
...and finally...
Marshlands...now used as a classroom...
...it retained it's name after it was moved from it's original location on Cooper River to James Island...
~Have a lovely day!
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