Charleston Fort Moultrie
| address | 1214 Middle St, Charleston, SC |
|---|---|
| telephone | 843/883-3123 |
| web site | www.nps.gov/fomo |
| price | Admission $3 adults, $1 seniors over 62, $5 family, free for children under 17. Federal Recreation Passports honored |
Frommer’s Review
Only a palmetto-log fortification at the time of the American Revolution, the half-completed fort was attacked by a British fleet in 1776. Colonel William Moultrie’s troops repelled the invasion in one of the first decisive American victories of the Revolution. The fort was subsequently enlarged into a five-sided structure with earth-and-timber walls 17 feet high. The British didn’t do it in, but an 1804 hurricane ripped it apart. By the War of 1812, it was back and ready for action. Osceola, the fabled leader of the Seminoles in Florida, was incarcerated at the fort and eventually died here. During the 1830s, Edgar Allen Poe served as a soldier at the fort. He set his famous short story “The Gold Bug” on Sullivan’s Island. The fort also played roles in the Civil War, the Mexican War, the Spanish-American War, and even in the two World Wars, but by 1947, it had retired from action.
| location | On Sullivan’s Island |
|---|---|
| open | Daily 9am-5pm |
| closed | Closed Christmas Day and New Year’s Day |
| transportation | Take S.C. 703 from Mt. Pleasant to Sullivan’s Island |
Excerpted from Frommer's The Carolinas and Georgia, 9th Edition, © 2009, Wiley Publishing, Inc.
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