White Point Garden is a 5.7-acre park at the tip of the Charleston peninsula. It is the southern end of the Battery, a defensive seawall and promenade. The tip used to be called Oyster Point, and landfill later shaped the sharp point.
From about 1840 to 1881 a public bathing house stood at the end of King Street, with a cake and ice cream parlor on the top floor. It was removed in 1881 as the garden and waterfront were filled in.
The garden has a largely military theme. Two guns from the USS Keokuk were installed in 1900. Keokuk was sunk by Charleston's forts in April 1863. Along East Battery is an 11-inch Dahlgren gun from the Keokuk that fired shells at Fort Sumter in 1863.