JOHNS ISLAND (AND BEYOND) HISTORY AND CULTURE

Johns Island and the Lowcountry have a long history and a rich culture.  Find out more by reading the following.

• Septima Clark
• Esau Jenkins
• Bernice Robinson

• Charleston County Historic Resources Survey:  2016  
• Faith in Action, The First Citizenship School on Johns Island:  2008  
• James Island & Johns Island Historical Survey:  1989
• Fenwick Hall Plantation
• National Register Sites in Charleston County

• Saving Praise Houses Before Their African Lineage Is Forgotten: 2023
• Come Back to the Land:  An Exploration of James and Johns Islands African American Settlement Communities (2022)
• Cultural ecosystem services caught in a ‘coastal squeeze’ between sea level rise and urban expansion:  2021  
• Johns Island Storyboard (for the above document):  2021
• Johns Island Community Conservation Initiative:  2020  
• Heirs’ Property and Land Fractionation: 2019
• Low Country Gullah Culture: Special Resource Study and Final Environmental Impact Statement:  2005
• Sea Change in the Sea Islands (National Geographic):  1989
• The Black Beach

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• The Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture 
• The International African American Museum 
• The Gullah Museum of Hilton Head Island 
• Pin Point Heritage Museum