Walks in History, LLC is located in Charleston’s French Quarter at East Bay Executive Center on 174 East Bay Street, Suite 304. Office hours are by appointment or chance. Please call us or check this website for the unique meeting locations for your preferred tour. You can best reach us at (843) 737-2119 or through email at walksinhistory@gmail.com.

To purchase tours online, click here.

We currently offer three tours: Charleston’s Pirate & Haunted History Tour leaves from the front doors of the East Bay Executive Center building, our Haunted Charleston Ghost Tour leaves from the John C. Calhoun Monument in Marion Square Park, as well as our Marion Square History tour.

Groups are limited to fewer than twenty-one per tour. 

Reservations are required.

Please arrive at least ten minutes before the tour to check in. Tours start on time.

All tours are handicap accessible. We ask if a guest does have disabilities or special needs that you notify us in advance so that we may adjust our route to accommodate for the most enjoyable tour possible.

PLEASE CLICK ON YOUR TOUR OF CHOICE BELOW FOR AVAILABLE DATES & TIMES. THEN, FILL OUT THE RESERVATION FORM AND YOU WILL RECEIVE AN E-MAIL CONFIRMATION.

PIRATE & HAUNTED HISTORY TOUR is our day and evening walking tour through historic Charleston’s French Quarter waterfront guided by only the authors of the best-selling book, Haunted Harbor, written by Geordie Buxton and Ed Macy.

The tour price is $20 per person with discounts given for children (7-14 are $12), seniors ($16), teachers and students with identification ($16), as well as military service members ($16). For more information on pricing and tour details, as well as to purchase tickets online, visit our online booking partner, Getyourguide.

All Pirate & Haunted History tours meet at 174 East Bay Street at the outside front of the East Bay Executive Center in the historic French Quarter.There are public parking garages on Concord and Prioleau Streets, as well as street parking space on Vendue Range.

This tour is 90 minutes long and about one mile in distance. The tour traces the stories and paths of Charles Towne’s seventeenth century Old Walled City, revisiting the hideaways of Blackbeard, Stede Bonnet, Anne Bonny & Mary Read, Calico Jack & Charles Vane’s “Flying Gang”, Edward Low, Tommy Tew, Henry Every, Bartholomew Roberts, as well as the maritime ghosts highlighted in the book, Haunted Harbor. There are around six to eight stops, most of which include harbor vistas of forts and islands while bringing you up close and personal to the oldest remaining structures on Charleston’s storied peninsula with eerie and macabre tales of pirates, spirits, witchcraft trials, and hangings. Bring a camera, and enjoy many of the sights of:

• The old walled city bastions
  
• Pink House Tavern, circa 1680’s (daytime only)
  
• Ryan’s slave mart where the enslaved were sold (daytime only)
  
• Colonial Exchange Building and Provost Dungeon
• Charleston Harbor vistas of a 1797 Fort Castle Pinckney used as POW camp for Federals from First Battle of Bull Run, Fort Sumter, Sullivan’s Island lighthouse, Revolutionary War-era Fort Johnson, the Cooper River Bridge, and James Island
  
• Battery Wall and South of Broad mansions
• Original site of pirate and witch hangings (daytime only)
  
• The Confederate Home
• First fireproof building in America
• A pre- Revolutionary War Charles Towne graveyard
•  … and much more!

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HAUNTED CHARLESTON GHOST TOUR is the only evening tour in Charleston guided by only the two authors of the best-selling book, Haunted Charleston, Ed Macy and Geordie Buxton. 

The tour price is $20 per person with discounts given for children, seniors, teachers and students with identification, as well as military service members. For more information on pricing and tour details, as well as to purchase tickets online, visit our online booking partner, Getyourguide.

All evening Haunted Charleston tours meet at the John C. Calhoun Monument in Marion Square. There is a public parking garage directly across from the park, as well as lots of street parking space on Charlotte Street and Meeting Streets. The tours are 75-90 minutes long and about a 3/4 of a mile up to a mile in distance. There are between five and eight ghost and poltergeist-packed stops, mostly including: 

• College of Charleston, circa 1770
• The Old Citadel and parade grounds
• Revolutionary War horn work, circa 1780
• A Revolutionary War Burial Ground
• Site of the Charleston Orphan house, circa 1792
• The Second Scottish Presbyterian Church
• A life-size replica of the Hunley submarine
• “Mother Emanuel”, South’s oldest AME church
• and more!!

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MARION SQUARE HISTORY TOUR is the only morning tour in Charleston guided by the author of the best-selling book, Haunted Plantations,Geordie Buxton. This tour has a limited schedule. If you would like to request a tour time outside of our regularly scheduled tours, please e-mail or call (843) 737 2119.

The tour price is $20 per person with discounts given for children, seniors, teachers and students with identification, as well as military service members. For more information on pricing and tour details, as well as to purchase tickets online, visit our online booking partner, Getyourguide.

All Marion Square History tours meet at the John C. Calhoun Monument. There is a public garage beside Marion Square Park on King Street, as well as lots of street parking space on Charlotte Street and Meeting Streets. The tours are 90 minutes long and near a mile in distance.

This tour traces the May 1780 British siege of Charleston and the creation of the old citadel, as well as the expansion of antebellum Charleston highlighting urban plantation and Gullah history, while visiting a rice planter’s 1820 in town plantation and slave quarters, the first railroad system in America used to haul cotton, legends of the West African Igbo tribe landing and cotton kingdoms, the CSS Hunley submarine replica, the oldest African Methodist Episcopal Church In America where a massive slave uprising was plotted, as well as some of the ghost stories from the book, Haunted Plantations. Bring a camera, and enjoy an exhilarating historical walk to eight and twelve stops of local and national historic significance, mostly including:

• 1820 Urban Plantation and exterior of slave quarters of Carolina Gold Rice planter and South Carolina governor   
• Original bastion wall used during 42 day British siege of Charleston in May of 1780
  
• Old Citadel fort built for free white minority in response to Denmark Vesey’s slave insurrection
• First Railroad depot in America using steam locomotives in 1833 to haul cotton
• 1849 Camden Depot with preserved antebellum train terminal towers
• Mother Emmanuel, oldest African Methodist Episcopal Church in the South founded, in part, by Rev. Morris Brown, rebuilt after the Civil War by son of Denmark Vesey, steps where Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. rallied black voters in 1962
  
• Confederate soldiers’ parade grounds
• Revolutionary War stone-shell bastion from the 1780 British Siege of Charleston
• Charleston Single house designs
  
• Burial grounds of Confederate soldiers who died in 1862 Battle of Secessionville on Jame Island
• Jospeh Manigault House
• A life-size replica of the H.L. Hunley submarine
• … and more!

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