Students from St Helena Elementary School march in the 41st annual Penn Center HeritageDays Parade on Saturday, Nov. 8, on St. Helena Island. The celebration is “a homecoming that honors the Gullah Geechee cultural legacy at the Penn Center National Historic Landmark District.” Asa Aarons Smith/The Island News
January 15 2008: A report is released ending the investigation by the Navy into the April
From staff reports Beaufort as the cradle of secession will be the focus of Historic Beaufort
January 8 2002: Beaufort County Sheriff’s Office Deputies Dyke Coursen and Dana Tate are shot and
January 1 1863: Lowcountry planter-turned-abolitionist William Henry Brisbane reads the Emancipation Proclamation aloud at a celebration
December 19 1866: South Carolina rejects the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which contains, in
