Penn Center
Explore Gullah History
The Penn Center is a 50-acre historic district including 25 buildings and structures on beautiful St. Helena Island, South Carolina. Surrounded by marsh and massive live oaks, the campus was home to one of the nation's first schools for formerly enslaved people. It is a significant African American institution rich with history. Check out Local Fun for more off-island adventures while enjoying your Fripp Island Vacation.
As you start your exploration, visit the Courtney P. Siceloff Welcome Center and Gift Shop, located with the York W. Bailey Museum. There you will find original artwork, books, music, and many other gifts.
Discover and celebrate the Sea Islands and Lowcountry African American culture known as Gullah Geechee. Tours are offered throughout the year and Penn Center hosts the annual Heritage Days Celebration each fall.
Penn Center
16 Penn Center Circle West
St. Helena Island, SC 29920
843-838-7105
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Girls Trip 2021 - We explored the Sea Islands, Beaufort, and Port Royal. We stayed in the town where Harriet Tubman led the union forces and freed over 700 enslaved people. We saw two church ruins that are well over 200 years old. We visited the Penn Center where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gathered with other civil rights activists. The same place that was the first school for formally enslaved individuals in the United States and where he wrote a portion of his “I Have A Dream” speech. We explored the very area that is the heart of the Gullah culture and learned so much about the history of the Gullah Geechee culture. On our very last day, we even got to eat authentic Gullah food at The Gullah Grub.
The humidity was painful but the sights were stunning, the people were kind and welcoming, and the entire area was rich with history.
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While the Civil War was still raging, formerly enslaved people on a South Carolina sea island were already learning to read and write in one of the first schools of its kind in the South. 📖 Penn School was founded in 1862 on St. Helena Island as part of the Port Royal Experiment, when Union forces took the Sea Islands and the enslaved people there seized the chance at education. 🌾
The school served the Gullah Geechee people, descendants of West Africans who, in the isolation of the Lowcountry sea islands, preserved more of their African language, foodways, and spiritual traditions than almost any community in America. Penn became a cornerstone of that world. A century later, in the 1960s, its campus, by then called Penn Center, was one of the only places in the segregated South where Black and white civil rights organizers could safely meet and stay overnight. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference held planning retreats there.
There is something powerful about a single piece of ground that holds both the first spelling lessons of freed people and the strategy sessions of a movement a hundred years later. Land carries memory. Is there a place, a church, a school, a stretch of land, that holds your family`s history in the same way?
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Visit the York W. Bailey Museum to discover the 86-year history of Penn Center beginning in 1862 through the reconstruction era. Before the museum's dedication it was known as the Cope Industrial Shop, built to house classes in trades such as blacksmithing, basketry, cobbling, harness making and carpentry.
