Penn Center

National Historic Landmark & First School in the South for Newly Freed Enslaved People & Significant African American Historical & Cultural Site. Penn Center, located on St. Helena Island in the South Carolina Sea Islands, is recognized as one of the nation's oldest and most significant African American cultural and historic institutions. To promote and preserve Penn’s history and culture though commitment to education, community development and social justice.
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Penn Center The First School in the South for Formerly Enslaved West Africans Located on beautiful St. Helena Island at the very heart of Gullah culture surrounded by glimmering marshes and nestled beneath the silvery mossdraped limbs of massive live oaks is Penn Center. The campus of the former Penn School one of the nations 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.

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