Welcome to Where QuickGuide Charleston
Welcome to Where QuickGuide Charleston, formerly Best Read Guide. Morris Visitor Publications' national marketing team has done numerous studies and found that Where is a recognizable name to travelers around the world. With these findings comes the conversion of Best Read Guide to Where QuickGuide. You'll find that the revised format continues to give you the lowdown on the great attractions, tours, restaurants, events, shopping and nightlife this town has to offer ... and more.

The Four Corners of Law
At the famous intersection of Broad and Meeting streets in Charleston, the institutions of city, state, nation and church stand together in an admirable example of civil co-existence. Each building occupies a corner that dovetails with the others to form a solid square of law and order referred to as "four corners." St. Michael's Episcopal Church represents canon law; City Hall represents municipal law; the Court House represents state law, and the U.S. Courthouse and Post Office represent federal law. For more on the Four Corners of Law, see story.

Charleston First in Cotton Exports
The first settlers to the Charleston area brought cottonseed with them in 1670. And although the crop did not become a major agricultural item at first, America's first cotton export -- seven bags valued at about $875 -- left Charleston for England in 1748.

More Firsts From Charleston ...
• America's first regularly scheduled train offering passenger service originated from Charleston in 1830. Part of the Wreckage of the Best Friend was used in 1861 to cast the first cannon to be built in the Confederate states.
• The first golf club in America was organized by a group of Scotsmen in 1786 on "Harleston's Green," between what is now Calhoun and Beaufain streets, from Rutledge Avenue to Ashley Avenue.