Charles Towne Landing, Historic park and archaeological site in West Ashley, Charleston, United States.

Charles Towne Landing is a 664-acre state historic site in West Ashley, Charleston, South Carolina, preserving the first permanent English settlement in Carolina. It includes a reconstructed palisade wall and earthworks, six replica cannon, a natural-habitat zoo of species native to the 1670s, and the replica ketch Adventure. A wooden building with dark horizontal siding, a steep shingled roof, and a small chimney stands among the grounds.

In 1670 English settlers backed by the eight Lords Proprietors founded a settlement on the Ashley River and named it Charles Town for King Charles II. It was the first permanent English settlement in Carolina and the nucleus of present-day Charleston. The site is now a state historic site; the exhibition pavilion opened on July 16, 1970, and the park was reopened after a major renovation in 2006.

The Experimental Crop Garden grows the crops early colonists planted for food and profit, and the plantings change with the season. Sugarcane and indigo, two cash crops the settlers attempted, are often visible. The garden sits within the site that preserves the first permanent English settlement in Carolina, founded in 1670.

The 664-acre site is spread along the Ashley River, so plan on driving between the visitor center, the Fortified Area and the Animal Forest, then walking the trails and palisade. Picnic tables are scattered through the grounds. Archeological excavations continue on site, so some areas may be fenced off.

The six cannon in the Fortified Area are working replicas that can be fired, and they stand where colonists once mounted a battery facing the Ashley River, with a second battery defending Towne Creek. The palisade wall and earthworks are partly rebuilt on their original archaeological footprint.