Word on the street
What locals are saying
Tommy Dew has been walking the old walled city — Market to Battery — for over 40 years, and the depth of institutional knowledge is the real draw: architecture, founding-era trivia, and the kind of contextual history that most carriage narrators simply don't have. Longtime Charlestonians call it the definitive orientation, and Darius Rucker routes every out-of-town houseguest through it. The one persistent caveat worth noting: Tommy has a tendency to linger at his church early in the route — a stop that can burn a meaningful half hour before the historical sweep of the Holy City fully kicks in.
40+ years of walled-city expertiseoutpaces carriage tours on depthDarius Rucker sends every houseguestchurch stop splits opinionlocals rank it above all other toursMarket-to-Battery arc through founding-era Charleston
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