Battery Park, also known as The Battery, is a landmark promenade in Charleston, South Carolina.
Battery Park, also known as The Battery, which includes a park known as White Point Gardens, is a landmark promenade in Charleston, South Carolina,famous for its stately antebellum homes. First used as a public park in 1837, it became an emplacement for artillery during the American Civil War. It stretches along the shores of the Charleston peninsula bordered by the Ashley and Cooper Rivers. Fort Sumter is visible from the Cooper River side and the point as is Castle Pinckney, the World War II aircraft carrier USS Yorktown CV 10, Fort Moultrie and Sullivan s Island. In the 18th century rocks and heavy materials were used to fortify the shore of the Cooper River. In 1838 this area of the Battery known as High Battery became a promenade. Before becoming a park Fort Broughton (ca. 1735) and Fort Wilkins during the American Revolution and War of 1812 occupied White or Oyster Point, so named because of the piles of bleached oyster shells on the point. This site is now known as White Point Gardens and boasts many large oak trees, a bandstand, a few memorials and pieces of artillery, some of which were used during the United States Civil War. A monument in White Point Gardens commemorates the hanging near that site of pirate captain Stede Bonnet and his crew in 1718 as well as the 1719 hanging of Richard Worley's pirates. The monument states that 29 of Bonnet s crew were executed close by. Although 29 of Bonnet s crew were sentenced to death the evidence suggests that only 22 were actually hanged.
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