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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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?" ...

A new commercial services contract has been awarded to Fort Sumter Tours, Inc., officials with Fort Sumter National Monument recently announced. The new 10-year contract began May 15. Fort Sumter ...

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 … ...

The Fort Pulaski National Monument is located on Cockspur Island about 15 miles east of central Savannah along U.S. 80. Hours The fort is open every day from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., with last entry at 4 ...

The U.S. National Park Service ordered all flags except the U.S. flag to be taken down at the Fort Sumter National Monument in Charleston Harbor.