Charleston

It will explain why the story of the route begins not in the galleries, but on the ground beneath them.

Here, the layout of the facade and passageways preserves the terms of a deal that survived a fire and a buyout.

It will show how the trade in people moved from a public intersection into a purpose-built private complex.

This stop will show how abandoned piers were kept open to the public despite the appeal of profitable development.

It will translate port statistics into human scale through water, tabby, and life-size figures.

This commercial building helps explain how a single signature became grounds for an execution without a full trial.

The surviving service buildings make it possible to continue the story of the family that documents initially recorded as property.

Here, the city walk begins with the transformation of a freight warehouse into Charleston's public gateway.

Here, a civic bequest, a court dispute, and one exhibition link Charleston to a future New York museum.

Two refusals to light the windows show how political defiance entered a private home.

Here, preserving a landmark becomes a story of debts, a lost garden, and persistent attempts to reclaim it.

On the former parade ground, private stories of emancipation become a large public procession through the city center.

It will connect the long history of Charleston’s Black church with the ordeal faced by its present-day congregation.

The pastel facades show how owners, one by one, restored value to a former port district.

The story of a bell ringer will link the church bells to city time and to limits on freedom of movement.

This stop shows how access to the collections changed before the boundaries imposed by the city disappeared.

The thick walls will be needed for the story of a supply that was hidden beside an enemy guard.

The finale will compare today’s garden with the former tidal point, whose exact boundaries were concealed by later fill.

The court case will show the difference between the price paid for freedom and freedom recognized by law.

It returns the memorial composition to the exact place where port regulations turned a private wharf into a monopolized point of entry.

Here, you can distinguish the natural shore from the land and wall that the city’s residents built on credit and after hurricanes.

The single-house layout will emerge as the result of a builder's work, undertaken at the risk of his own money.

The fate of the restored houses will conclude the discussion of how preservation changed both the buildings and the composition of their residents.

The school fence connects a family story of an escape with the documented history of the city gates.

The story of the street's restoration shows who saved the old woodwork and who lost housing here.

From the vanished pier, the route will lead directly into the harbor for the first time, through which one family tried to escape together.