Washington Park, Unitarian Church and Downtown

Thursday, we took a long stroll and found some angles of old buildings. We ventured through Washington Park which has a nice statue George Washington. This is found behind the City Hall where a painting of George was commissioned and now hangs in the chambers for city council. The funny story is that the artist was commissioned right after President Washington visited Charleston and the city wanted to remember him in the city. The artist painted Washington in Trenton during a battle of the American Revolution. The people of Charleston were upset with the artist and made him repaint the picture with Charleston in the background. Not happy with having to repaint the painting, the artist painted Washington's horse ridding himself of waste on Charleston. The painting with horse defecating on Charleston is the one in City Hall. The original one of him in Trenton is I think in Princeton.

After Washington Park, we strolled through the Unitarian Church graveyard which hold graves from the 1700s. The church building is round and has pretty windows and ironwork.