Today we first visited Charles Pinckney National Historic Site.  Charles Pinckney was one of the youngest person to sign the constitution, and his “Pinckney Draft” contained many ideas that were ultimately put into the constitution:

This house was built on the foundation of the original Pinckney house.  It’s now a visitor center:

This Christian Bible has verses in English in the sidebar and in Gullah in the main bar:

The kids completed their Junior Ranger workbooks and received their badges:

Our next stop today was Fort Moultrie National Monument:

The fort was built in 1776, but this portion of the fort was modernized much later:

Underground, we walked through the World War II era bunker:

The kids completed their Junior Ranger workbooks and received their Junior Ranger badges:

Since they’ve completed three Civil War Junior Ranger badges in this part of the country, the kids also received their Junior Civil War Historian patches:

Our last stop of the day was the visitor center for Fort Sumter National Monument.  Since the visitor center is downtown, we left the RV at Fort Moultrie and drove here with the truck.  The ferry to the fort, which is on an island, was prohibitively expensive, so we settled for visiting just the visitor center:

This is the flag that flew over Fort Sumter when Confederate forces shelled the fort into surrender, an action that initiated the Civil War:

This was surprising:

Fort Sumter can barely be seen on the horizon:

Across the bay we could see the USS Yorktown, now a museum ship:

The kids completed their Junior Ranger workbooks and received their badges:

Returning to the truck:

We continued driving south to overnight at the Walmart of Brunswick, Georgia.  Along the way, we passed under this bridge:

See the trip map for today’s drive and our current location.