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This one-room frame school, built ca. 1937, was the first separate school building constructed for African-American students on Hilton Head Island. It replaced an earlier Cherry Hill School, which had held its classes in personage of St. …
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Early A.M.E. Missionaries to South Carolina, Rev. James H.A. Johnson and Rev. James A. Handy, arrived at Hilton Head on the Steamship Arago at 3:18 p.m. Friday, May 12, 1865.
Rev. James Lynch, also an A.M.E. Missionary, shared entertainment affor…
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Oldest Baptist Church On Hilton Head Island Organized August 17, 1862 In The Town Of Mitchelville With 120 Members Building Was Moved To Present Location Later And Rebuilt In 1966 …
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(Front text) This house, built in 1930, is typical in materials and methods of construction of those built on the S.C. Sea Islands from the end of the Civil War to the mid-20th century. It was built on land bought after 1865 by William Simmons (ca…
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(Front ) This Civil War fort, named for Gen. Joshua Blackwood Howell (1806-1864), was built by the U.S. Army to defend Hilton Head Island and the nearby freedmen's village of Mitchelville from potential Confederate raids or expeditions. That villa…
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This church, founded in 1886 by former members of First African Baptist Church, is one of the oldest surviving institutions remaining from the town of Mitchelville, a freedmen's village established here by the United States Army in 1862. The prese…
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Before the Island's first bridge, Charlie Simmons, Sr., became known as "Mr. Transportation" amoung the local community, which was made up of descendants of freed slaves following the Civil War.Until the late 1920's sailboats were the primary mean…
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In December 1781, returning from a patrol with the Patriot Militia, Charles Devant was mortally wounded from ambush near here by Captain Martinangel's Royal Militia from Daufuskie Island. He managed to ride his horse to his nearby plantation, Two …
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Confederate Brig. Gen. Thomas F. Drayton was in command of this area at the time of nearby battleof Port Royal, November 7, 1861. A brother, Capt.Percival Drayton, commanded the Union warshipPocahontas at the same battle. Earlier,General Drayton h…
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A Chapel of St. Luke's Parrish,established May 23, 1767, built ofwood shortly after 1786 under thedirection of Captain John Stoneyand Isaac Fripp, was consecratedin 1833. Members of the Barksdale, Baynard, Chaplin, Davant, Fripp,Kirk, Mathews, Pop…