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The Old Exchange and Provost Dungeon – Downtown

$19 for One-Year Colonial Family Museum Membership ($60 Value)

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One-time goods exchange and prison now houses artifacts from early settler life, chronicling the history of South Carolina's independence

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  • Expires Jun 26, 2013
  • Limit 1 per person, may buy 2 additional as gifts. Limit 1 per visit. Must activate membership by the expiration date on your Groupon; membership expires 1 year from activation.
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History museums show us how people used to live: in history museums with all their possessions behind glass display cases. Intrude on the past with this Groupon.

$19 for One-Year Colonial Family Membership ($60 Value)

Along with free annual admission for up to five museum-goers, members also receive a 15% discount at the Old Exchange gift shop, a subscription to the biannual newsletter, “The Cupola,” and invitations to special events.

The Old Exchange and Provost Dungeon

Import-and-export building. Horrifying prison. Place of freedom. Site of the slave trade. Though The Old Exchange and Provost Dungeon is but one building, it has served all of the above functions. Built in 1771, the original Exchange was a storehouse for a slew of goods that were to be sent abroad, and those that had arrived on American shores. The passing years saw its confines house the selling of slaves, and as the American Revolution became more and more fierce, a prison for Colonel Isaac Hayne. Blackbeard the pirate spent many months raiding the ships that carried Exchange goods from the harbor, including the hair dye that kept his obsidian beard from showing its blonde roots.

Today, the restored building acts as a museum, showing visitors the life led by early Americans vying for independence from England. Artifacts from the country's early years fill glass cases and rooms alongside exhibits detailing historic events. The Provost Dungeon, located in the building's basement, draws visitors of all ages into its darkened corridors, enabling them to feel a small, chilling portion of the dread its prisoners must have felt.

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Cow: Skin becomes translucent in order to display the animal's delicious-looking insides and lure its attacker closer. Once the attacker is near, the cow hopes it will realize how pitiful and defenseless cows really are and then just leave it alone.

Chicken: Throws up a bunch

Dogs: Spend years—years—pretending they give a single guff what you have to say

Hamster: Balls itself up to look like a disgusting, hairy corn dog

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The Old Exchange and Provost Dungeon

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    122 East Bay Street
    Charleston, South Carolina 29401
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  • if you do not get anywhere else, take the time to visit this place to get a great perspective on the importance of this place & Charleston
    Larry T., 2/11/13
  • The amount of history that is connected to this building is very interesting and educational.
    Brandy W., 2/26/13
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