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  1. 1st, 6th. Website. www .charlestoncounty .org. Charleston County is a county in the U.S. state of South Carolina. As of the 2020 census, 408,235 people lived there, [1] making it the third-most populous county in South Carolina (after Greenville and Richland counties). Its county seat is Charleston. [2] The county was formed in 1901.

  2. Charleston is a city in Charleston County in the U.S. state of South Carolina. It is the county seat and largest city of Charleston County. As of 2021, the city's population is about 151,612. Charleston was the capital of South Carolina until 1786 when Columbia became capital.

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  4. Charleston is a city in Charleston County in the U.S. state of South Carolina. It is the county seat and largest city of Charleston County. As of 2021, the city's population is about 151,612

  5. CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA. The first English settlement in South Carolina was established at Albemarle Point on the west bank of the Ashley River in 1670 and named Charles Town, in honor of King Charles II. The location proving to be undesirable, a new Charles Town was begun on the site of the present Charleston about 1672, and the seat of ...

  6. South Carolina is named after King Charles I of England.Carolina is taken from the Latin word for "Charles", Carolus. South Carolina was formed in 1712. By the end of the 16th century, the Spanish and French had left the area of South Carolina after several reconnaissance missions, expeditions and failed colonization attempts, notably the short-living French outpost of Charlesfort followed by ...

  7. Jun 8, 2016 · A United States naval base and shipyard relocated to the north area of Charleston from Beaufort in 1901. After three decades of slow growth, the base mushroomed into a giant facility during World War II. From 1938 to 1943 the civilian workforce ballooned from 1,632 to 26,500 people. North Charleston grew with the navy yard.

  8. Charleston is the most populous city in the U.S. state of South Carolina, the county seat of Charleston County, the third-largest in the state, 8th-largest in the Deep South and the 74th-largest metropolitan statistical area in the United States. Charleston was founded in 1670 as Charles Town, honoring King Charles II, at Albemarle Point on the west bank of the Ashley River but relocated in ...

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