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3 unusual facts about West Ashley


West Ashley

WCSC-TV Channel 5, the area's CBS affiliate and first television station to sign on the air in Charleston in 1953 moved to a newly constructed broadcast facility in West Ashley in 1997.

Local Native Americans, particularly the Kiawah Indians, led the colonists from the Carolina ship to a suitable settling ground.

A few skirmishes took place there in the American Revolution, specifically at Rantowles Creek, where William Washington defeated cavalry forces under Banastre Tarleton, and at Old St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church during the 1780 Siege of Charleston.



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