A sign for Towne MacDonald Memorial Park on Seaside Road on St. Helena Island, seen Oct. 18, 2024. Recent trash dumping at the park has been a challenge for the Beaufort-based Open Land Trust ...

The Brick Baptist Church was built by enslaved people in 1855 for use by White planters, and is seen here on St. Helena Island, South Carolina, Tuesday, April 24, 2023.

The Penn Center Campus on St. Helena Island is part of Reconstruction Era National Historical Park, Karl Puckett This story was originally published September 17, 2022 at 4:18 PM. Related Stories ...

BEAUFORT COUNTY, S.C. (WTOC) - The United States National Parks director Chuck Sams visited the Penn Center on St. Helena Island today to discuss efforts to preserve Reconstruction Era History. Sams ...

“St. Helena is a pristine landscape. There are salt marsh estuaries, there are maritime forests. You’re likely to see things like roseate spoonbills and wood storks on a visit out to St. Helena Island ...

Spy the long-limbed endangered St Helena plover, or wirebird — the island’s only surviving endemic land bird — emerging from burrows amid the dry pastures of Deadwood Plain, and meet the ...

A Beaufort County plan to build a 5-foot-wide sidewalk along a stretch of St. Helena Island’s Martin Luther King Jr. Drive using sales tax ... part of the Reconstruction Era National Park. ...

Not every one of those people spoke but many did, often with passion about protecting St. Helena Island and preserving its way of life and the Gullah-Geechee culture.

BEAUFORT, S.C. –- On Nov. 7, 1861, wealthy cotton plantation owners on South Carolina's St. Helena Island hastily herded their families onto whatever seaworthy vessels they could find and fled ...

Dennis: At the National Trust, we’ve been protecting St Helena’s endangered wirebird since 2007. When the project started, there were 275 left on the island and now we have roughly 582 adults.