Among the historic sites visited by field school participants are:

• Drayton Hall Begun in the late 1730's, this Georgian Palladian plantation house is now operated as an historic house museum by the National Trust for Historic Preservation and is an outstanding example of a building that has been preserved rather than restored.
• Middleton Place Laid out in 1741, the grounds of this plantation are the oldest landscape gardens in the United States.
• Heyward Washington House Begun in 1771, this home of a prominent rice planter became the city's first historic house museum.
• Joseph Manigault House Built in 1803, the home is recognized as a National Historic Landmark.
• Aiken-Rhett House The Historic Charleston Foundation is now interpreting this grand home as a working urban plantation.
• African American Heritage The work of black artisans is evident everywhere in the city's eighteenth-century and antebellum architecture; local African-American heritage also includes slave insurrection sites, freedmen neighborhoods, historic churches, and schools.
• Fort Sumter National Monument The stabilized brick fort is located on an island in Charleston Harbor and is maintained and interpreted by the National Park Service.
• Charles Pinckney National Historic Site Archaeological research at this new unit of the National Park system is exploring the material culture of slave life.
• McCleod Plantation Land use plans are being developed for this historic plantation landscape that includes an extant row of slave cabins.