From the November 28, 2020, Charleston (S.C.) Post and Courier "Fort Sumter sees sharp decline in visitors amid COVID-19 pandemic and racial justice year" by Thomas Novelly.
Fort Sumter National Monument has seen a huge decline in visitors compared to last year partly due to the coronavirus but also because of the situation with Confederate monuments and racial equality.
Monthly visits are down 60% this year compared to the same time frame last year according to data from the National Park Service (NPS).
Between January and September 2019, more than 700,000 visitors came to the site at the mouth of Charleston Harbor which is considered to be where the first shots of the Civil War were fired.
Between January and September this year, that number has dropped to a little more than 270,000. The NPS counts the number of visitors as the visits to both Fort Sumter as well as Fort Moultrie and Liberty Square. Liberty Square contains the Fort Sumter Visitor Education Center.
I'm sure there are more people going to the latter two because they can be reached by land nd Fort Sumter requires a boat trip at about $21 apiece.
--B-Runner
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