Charleston, the largest city in S. Carolina, and the chief commercial city; also a town in Western Virginia, U.S., with a spacious land-locked harbour; is the chief outlet for the cotton and rice of the district, and has a large coasting trade.
Population (circa 1900) given as 56,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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