Penn Center Heritage Days

Located on beautiful St. Helena Island, at the very heart of Gullah culture, surrounded by glimmering marshes, and nestled beneath the silvery moss-draped limbs of massive live oaks… is Penn Center. The campus of the former Penn School, one of the nation’s first schools for formerly enslaved people, is one of the most significant African American institutions in existence today. This historic and cultural institution is a National Historic Landmark District and comprises two of the four sites in Reconstruction Era National Park. Docent led tours of the York W. Bailey Museum are available Tuesday - Saturday at 10:00 AM, 12:00 PM and 3:00 PM. Culture and Community at the Penn Center National Historic Landmark District is a research and education partnership between Penn Center and the University of Georgia Willson Center for Humanities and Arts, funded by a grant from the Mellon Foundat...