Liberty Tree
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- Type: Memorial
- Description: historic oak tree in Charleston, South Carolina
- Also known as: “The Liberty Tree”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Charleston County School District and Gaillard Center.
Charleston County School District
Public building
Charleston County School District is a school district within Charleston County, South Carolina, United States. It educates roughly 50,000 kindergarten to 12th grade students in 80 schools. Charleston County School District is situated 520 feet south of Liberty Tree.
Gaillard Center
Theater building
Photo: Muttnick, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Gaillard Center is a concert hall and performance venue in Charleston, South Carolina. It opened in 2015 and replaced the Gaillard Municipal Auditorium. Both buildings were named after John Palmer Gaillard Jr., mayor of Charleston from 1959 to 1975. Gaillard Center is situated 960 feet south of Liberty Tree.
Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church
Church
Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, colloquially Mother Emanuel, is a church in Charleston, South Carolina, founded in 1817. It is the oldest AME church in the Southern United States; founded the previous year in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, AME was the first independent black denomination in the nation. Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church is situated 1,000 feet southwest of Liberty Tree.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Wraggborough and Ansonborough.
Wraggborough
Quarter
Wraggborough is a neighborhood in downtown Charleston, South Carolina, named after slave trader Joseph Wragg, and noted for its association with the slave trade.
Ansonborough
Quarter
Ansonborough is a neighborhood in Charleston, South Carolina. In 1726, Captain George Anson acquired a 64-acre tract from Thomas Gadsden. Anson's lands were divided into smaller parcels for development, and several streets were named either for his ships or for himself: George and Anson, Scarborough and Squirrel, and Centurion.
Charleston
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.
Liberty Tree
- Categories: liberty tree and historic site
- Location: Charleston County, South Carolina, South, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
32.78933° or 32° 47′ 22″ northLongitude
-79.93063° or 79° 55′ 50″ westOpen location code
8742Q3Q9+PPOpenStreetMap ID
node 12554798239OpenStreetMap feature
historic=memorialWikidata ID
Q104902741
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Highlights include Susie Jackson Freedom Memorial Garden and Charleston County Public Library.
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