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
The Slave Dwelling Project, founded by Joseph McGill, is on a mission to develop resources to preserve, interpret, maintain and sustain historical African American slave dwellings. McGill, who is a Civil Rights re-enactor, has reached over ninety sites in over eighteen states where he engages audiences at historic locations through programs, lectures, and spending nights in the dwellings.
Join us at Penn Center on December 16, 2023 at 11:00 A.M. as McGill and co-author Herb Frazier discuss their enlightening book, “Sleeping with the Ancestors“. This book focuses on all of the key sites McGill has visited and gives readers an important unexpected emersion into the history of slavery, and especially the obscured and ignored aspects of that history.
In addition, re-enactors will present “Living History through the Eyes of the Enslaved“ with a brick-making demonstration with Rodney Prioleau and a storytelling presentation with Carolyn Evans as “Harriet Tubman“!
A FREE COPY of this book will be provided to the 1st fifteen attendees/families that arrive at the event! Books will be available for purchase through the Penn Center during the event.
This program is hosted in partnership with the Penn Center and is free and open to the public!
Doors open at 10:30 A.M.
To learn more about The Slave Dwelling Project, visit: https://slavedwellingproject.org/
#gullah #geechee #slavedwellingproject #penncenter #booktalk #livinghistory
The Slave Dwelling Project, founded by Joseph McGill, is on a mission to develop resources to preserve, interpret, maintain and sustain historical African American slave dwellings. McGill, who is a Civil Rights re-enactor, has reached over ninety sites in over eighteen states where he engages audiences at historic locations through programs, lectures, and spending nights in the dwellings.
Join us at Penn Center on December 16, 2023 at 11:00 A.M. as McGill and co-author Herb Frazier discuss their enlightening book, “Sleeping with the Ancestors“. This book focuses on all of the key sites McGill has visited and gives readers an important unexpected emersion into the history of slavery, and especially the obscured and ignored aspects of that history.
In addition, re-enactors will present “Living History through the Eyes of the Enslaved“ with a brick-making demonstration with Rodney Prioleau and a storytelling presentation with Carolyn Evans as “Harriet Tubman“!
A FREE COPY of this book will be provided to the 1st fifteen attendees/families that arrive at the event! Books will be available for purchase through the Penn Center during the event.
This program is hosted in partnership with the Penn Center and is free and open to the public!
Doors open at 10:30 A.M.
To learn more about The Slave Dwelling Project, visit: https://slavedwellingproject.org/
#gullah #geechee #slavedwellingproject #penncenter #booktalk #livinghistory
Emancipation Proclamation Fountain, 1964, #sculptor Gerd Utescher, installed in the #PennCenter #Concourse on February 12, 1965. The fountain portion was removed in 2002.
Famous #cityplanner Edmund Bacon was adamant in his belief that underground concourses should have openings to the sky to let natural light in. He was also a huge advocate for #publicart being prominent throughout the city. He donated this #sculpture himself!
While a number of those openings to the sky didn`t work as planned, and many have been enclosed, this one, serving septaphilly`s 15th Street Station, does exactly what Bacon envisioned.
#urbanplanning #urbanism #transithistory #transit streetsdept septa_social #Philly #philadelphia #edmundbacon #philadelphia_citylife #phillystreets #phillycorners #215phillyig #philadelphia_ig #whyilovephilly #instadelphia #howphillyseesphilly #howiseephilly
Emancipation Proclamation Fountain, 1964, #sculptor Gerd Utescher, installed in the #PennCenter #Concourse on February 12, 1965. The fountain portion was removed in 2002.
Famous #cityplanner Edmund Bacon was adamant in his belief that underground concourses should have openings to the sky to let natural light in. He was also a huge advocate for #publicart being prominent throughout the city. He donated this #sculpture himself!
While a number of those openings to the sky didn`t work as planned, and many have been enclosed, this one, serving septaphilly`s 15th Street Station, does exactly what Bacon envisioned.
#urbanplanning #urbanism #transithistory #transit streetsdept septa_social #Philly #philadelphia #edmundbacon #philadelphia_citylife #phillystreets #phillycorners #215phillyig #philadelphia_ig #whyilovephilly #instadelphia #howphillyseesphilly #howiseephilly
Around Penn Center.
#philly #philadelphia #rittenhousesquare
#phillycoffee #penncenter #phillypenncenter
#southphilly #phillyfood #phillypulse #phillyphotographer
Around Penn Center.
#philly #philadelphia #rittenhousesquare
#phillycoffee #penncenter #phillypenncenter
#southphilly #phillyfood #phillypulse #phillyphotographer
Martin Luther King, Jr. visited the Penn Center 5 times and a part of the "I Have A Dream" speech was written here during one of his stays.
Have you ever visited this beautiful location?
📸📍St. Helena Island: biscuitsandburlap
#discover #southcarolina #winter #history #mlkday #sunday #PennCenter #lowcountry #sthelenaisland #visitsouthcarolina #beaufort #january #travel #explore #roadtrip #beaufortsc #history
Martin Luther King, Jr. visited the Penn Center 5 times and a part of the "I Have A Dream" speech was written here during one of his stays.
Have you ever visited this beautiful location?
📸📍St. Helena Island: biscuitsandburlap
#discover #southcarolina #winter #history #mlkday #sunday #PennCenter #lowcountry #sthelenaisland #visitsouthcarolina #beaufort #january #travel #explore #roadtrip #beaufortsc #history
"To thine own self be true." Hamlet 1.3. Knowledge is power. 🙏🏽 Africa 💜 #gullah #gullahgeechee #sierraleone #costalcarolina #gullahislands #penncenter #sainthelenaisland #beaufortsc #lowcountry #geechieking
"To thine own self be true." Hamlet 1.3. Knowledge is power. 🙏🏽 Africa 💜 #gullah #gullahgeechee #sierraleone #costalcarolina #gullahislands #penncenter #sainthelenaisland #beaufortsc #lowcountry #geechieking
“Intelligence and character — that is the goal of true education .” Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
My two republished books about Gullah Geechee culture and heritage are available at www.Etsy.com/shop/GeecheeLiterature
Link in Bio.
#gullahgullahisland #gullahculture #geecheelanguage #joyofreading #blackhistory #africandiaspora #endracialhatred #stopintolerance #lowcountrybirds #spirituality #historicalfiction #literaryfiction #brookgreengardens #africanamericanhistory #gullahfestival #southernhistory #americanhistory
#penncenter #brookgreengardens
“Intelligence and character — that is the goal of true education .” Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
My two republished books about Gullah Geechee culture and heritage are available at www.Etsy.com/shop/GeecheeLiterature
Link in Bio.
#gullahgullahisland #gullahculture #geecheelanguage #joyofreading #blackhistory #africandiaspora #endracialhatred #stopintolerance #lowcountrybirds #spirituality #historicalfiction #literaryfiction #brookgreengardens #africanamericanhistory #gullahfestival #southernhistory #americanhistory
#penncenter #brookgreengardens
Gantt Cottage at Penn Center. The March on Washinton was planned and Dr. Martin Luther King’s “I have a Dream” speech (sadly often the only line remembered or known) was written here.
#icm #penncenter #mlk
Gantt Cottage at Penn Center. The March on Washinton was planned and Dr. Martin Luther King’s “I have a Dream” speech (sadly often the only line remembered or known) was written here.
#icm #penncenter #mlk
10/12～10/14🍁🍂
Thank for Benjin and Rose take us to visit Philly for two days.🖤
And it`s the first trip with Sara😛
Fortunately you can accept hot pot🍲
#2018 #fall #usa #pennsylvania #philadelphia #templeuniversity #cityhall
#elfrethsalley #independencehall #penncenter #exchangestudent
10/12～10/14🍁🍂
Thank for Benjin and Rose take us to visit Philly for two days.🖤
And it`s the first trip with Sara😛
Fortunately you can accept hot pot🍲
#2018 #fall #usa #pennsylvania #philadelphia #templeuniversity #cityhall
#elfrethsalley #independencehall #penncenter #exchangestudent
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.
