Hobcaw Point

Hobcaw Point is a neighborhood in Charleston County, South Carolina. Hobcaw Point is situated nearby to the neighborhood Hobcaw View, as well as near Molasses Creek.

Places of Interest

Highlights include USS Yorktown and USS Laffey.

USS Yorktown

Museum

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USS Yorktown is one of 24 Essex-class aircraft carriers built during World War II for the United States Navy. Initially to have been named Bonhomme Richard, she was renamed Yorktown while still under construction, after the Yorktown-class aircraft carrier USS Yorktown , which was sunk at the Battle of Midway. USS Yorktown is situated 2 miles south of Hobcaw Point.

USS Laffey

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USS Laffey is an Allen M. Sumner-class destroyer constructed during World War II, laid down and launched in 1943, and commissioned in February 1944. She was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for Seaman Bartlett Laffey, who was awarded the Medal of Honor for his stand against Confederate forces during the Civil War. USS Laffey is situated 2½ miles south of Hobcaw Point.

Arthur Ravenel Jr. Bridge

Bridge

Photo: bbatsell, CC BY-SA 2.5.

The Arthur Ravenel Jr. Bridge is a cable-stayed bridge over the Cooper River in South Carolina, US, connecting downtown Charleston to Mount Pleasant. The bridge has a main span of 1,546 feet, the seventh longest among cable-stayed bridges in the Western Hemisphere. Arthur Ravenel Jr. Bridge is situated 2 miles southwest of Hobcaw Point.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Mount Pleasant and Daniel Island.

Mount Pleasant

Photo: WolfgangExler, CC BY 3.0.

Mount Pleasant is a large town in the Greater Charleston region of South Carolina. The population of the town has exploded, making it a very popular bedroom community of the city of Charleston.

Daniel Island

Suburb

Charleston is the largest and oldest city in the state of South Carolina in the United States of America. Its historic downtown is on a peninsula formed by two rivers, the Ashley and the Cooper, flowing into the Atlantic, and protected from the open ocean by surrounding islands. Daniel Island is situated 3 miles north of Hobcaw Point.

Hampstead Village

Quarter

Hampstead Village is a neighborhood in Charleston, South Carolina in the US, also known as the Eastside or the East Side. A prominent merchant, Henry Laurens, bought several tracts totaling 99 acres where Hampstead Village is today. Hampstead Village is situated 3 miles southwest of Hobcaw Point.

Hobcaw Point

Type: Neighborhood
Category: locality
Location: Charleston County, South Carolina, South, United States, North America
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Latitude

32.82018° or 32° 49′ 13″ north

Longitude

-79.89398° or 79° 53′ 38″ west

Elevation

10 feet (3 metres)

Open location code

8742R4C4+3C

OpenStreetMap ID

node 158303932

OpenStreetMap feature

place=neighbourhood

GeoNames ID

4581860

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