CHARLESTON, SC (WCSC) - Sunday marks the longest government shutdown in U.S. history and local businesses are still feeling the effects. Many national parks are closed including Fort Sumter, but on ...

The National Park Service highly recommends purchasing your ferry ride tickets in advance, which you can do at the Fort Sumter Tours website. Hours The visitor center is open from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p ...

Rick Mosteller, a partner with Fort Sumter Tours, says this isn't the first government shutdown his group has had to deal with, and probably won't be the last. “We do the best we can given the ...

More than 120 visitors toured Fort Sumter for the first time in 24 days. The partial government shutdown meant national parks service workers were not able to open Fort Sumter, one of Charleston's ...

The threat posed by Hurricane Irma has prompted officials at Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor to drop all tours. Dawn Davis with the Fort Sumter National Monument said in a news release Thursday ...

On July 4, one of the highlights of our Independence Day celebration was a tour of Fort Sumter National Monument and its museum. It is well worth the effort to see the fort's remains and learn the ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCBD) — Tuesday marks day 25 of the partial government shutdown and businesses here in the Lowcountry are feeling the effects.

said Tim Stone, superintendent of Fort Sumter National Monument. "Could they in any way have thought that this was going to be the beginning of a four-year bloodbath in which 600,000 people will die?" ...

Fort Sumter National Monument officials announced that Fort Sumter Tours, Inc. has been selected to provide commercial services at Fort Sumter National Monument under the terms of a new 10-year ...

Fort Sumter is a sea fort in Charleston, South Carolina, notable for two battles of the American Civil War. It was one of a number of many special forts planned after the War of 1812, combining ...

U.S. Sen. Tim Scott, the first black U.S. senator from the deep South since Reconstruction, is proposing that the site where the Civil War began be raised in status to that of a national park. The … ...

CHARLESTON, SC (WCSC) - Fort Sumter National Monument officials say they're moving their historical flag display to their original parade ground inside the fort. A news release says the display will ...