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Built in the 1930s, this is one of the few remaining examples of the libraries built for African-Americans in South Carolina and Georgia by the Faith Cabin Libraries. The organization was founded by Willie Lee Buffington, a poor white mill worker from Saluda. Buffington went on to graduate from Furman and became a Methodist minister. His organization from the 1930s to 1950s started more than a 100 libraries with more than 200,000 donated books.
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This 40-acre living farm museum replicates life on small Southern family farms owned and operated by African Americans between 1865-1900. Authentic farm methods, tools, crops, animals, and buildings of the period are used to replicate life on the animal-powered farm. Workers use mules and plows to cultivate, cook with wood, make sausage, syrup, and soap, cure hams and tobacco and harvest crops by hand. Other components of the farm are tilled fields and grazing land. Farm buildings of the period include the main farmhouse, a smokehouse, a blacksmith shed, and livestock, tobacco and storage barns. A farmers' market offers fresh produce twice a week.
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A showcase of African & African-American art. Original works from local, national and international artists.
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 Charleston |
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The Greenville Cultural Exchange Center (GCEC) is an African-American history museum and culture center dedicated to the preservation of African-American history in the Greenville area. Ruth Ann Butler, a former history teacher with Greenville County School System, founded GCEC in 1987. The Center provides a haven of historical reflection, research and education. Exhibits, archive, guided tours and meeting spaces offer resources for those seeeking knowledge and understanding of the city of Greenville's and the region's multi-cultural diversity, contributions and accomplishments.
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 Greenville |
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This two-hour tour explores the Sea Island Gullah Heritage. You'll enjoy a narrated bus tour from fourth generation Gullah family members who share first-hand stories about the Gullah language, food and family traditions. Tour highlights include: Queen Chapel AME Church, Gullah family compounds, a one-room school, plantation tabby ruins and the historic marker for the first freedom village.
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 Hilton Head Island |
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Provides step-on service for tour of Georgetown's African-American sites.
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 Georgetown |
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Gullah Tours explores all of downtown Charleston, with places, history and stories relating to black Charlestonians. Visit the east side of Charleston, the Underground Railroad, Brown Fellowship Society, Catfish Row (setting of Porgy & Bess) and possibly meet Philip Simmons, internationally known blacksmith/ornamental gatemaker and National Folk Treasure. Enjoy all of this on a 21-passenger air-conditioned bus.
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This historical tour of St. Helena and the surrounding Sea Islands brings to life stories and contributions of enslaved Africans and their native cultures and how it significantly influenced the growth and development of South Carolina's and America's culture. Offers "receptive operators" who create group packages and lodging for a total Gullah culture experience. Have been featured on Grainger LTD-Australian TV for the 1996 Olympic Games, Japanese and Korean TV, BBC, PBS and over 600 magazines and newspaper publications.
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Saint Helena Island |
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Two cabins (c. 1836) built by African-Americans to house African-American slaves who were brought to this area to raise cotton remain on the campus of Francis Marion University. The quality of the woodcraft, especially the full-dovetailed corners, shows that the builders were skilled craftsmen who took great pride in their work. The cabins are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
The hewn timber cabins are open and available to the general public from 10:30 AM to 2:30 PM on the second Wednesday of each month from March through November, weather permitting.
If you visit the site when the cabins are not open, signs outside each cabin provide visitors with a wealth of information and pictures. Photos show the cabin interiors and artifacts, many of which have been donated by families who lived in the cabins.
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 Florence |
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Historic Brattonsville is a 775-acre Revolutionary War living history site. Explore the Bratton Plantation, owned and lived on for three generations by the wealthy Bratton family. Experience a reenactment of the Battle of Huck’s Defeat, which took place on the grounds of Brattonsville 225 years ago.
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the site features more than 30 historic structures open to the public. These “house museums” chronicle the development of the Carolina Piedmont from the 1750s through the 1840s. Historic Brattonsville is one of the few living history sites with African-American interpretation.
Historic Brattonsville also is home to an award-winning Heritage Farm Program. Rare breeds of farm animals such as Gulf Coast sheep, Devon cattle and Ossabaw Island hogs are raised and cared for here, just as they were hundreds of years ago. Demonstrations of historical farming techniques and day-to-day activities are presented by costumed interpreters throughout the year on the Bratton Plantation.
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 McConnells |
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