TRAVEL + LEISURE |  Isle of Freedom

Bridgette Bartlett Royall discovers what makes our beautiful town so captivating. Read the full article here.

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USA TODAY | Historic Mitchelvile Freedom Park’s Freedom Day Featured in Black History Month Special Edition

Check out Historic Mitcheville Freedom Park featured on page 71 of USA Today's Black History Month Special edition.

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WTOC | Mitcheville Freedom Park Hosts Freedom Day

By WTOC StaffPublished: Feb. 2, 2023 at 11:08 AM EST SAVANNAH, Ga. (WTOC) - Black History Month is underway and there are already a handful of events you can check out now. But this weekend if you are over on Hilton…

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Explore the World From Inside the U.S.: 13 Great Multicultural Destinations

BY KERRI ANNE RENZULLI ON 08/10/22 AT 6:00 AM EDT Along the Sea Islands and coastal plains of the Southeast, you'll find the Gullah Geechee people—descendants of enslaved West Africans forced to work on rice, cotton, and indigo plantations before the Civil War. Living on isolated islands…

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 Bench by the Road

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 Net Casting

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 Tool Shed

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 The Bateau

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 Homestead House

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 Praise House

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Free at Last: The Civil War Ends

On April 9, 1865, the Civil War ended with the surrender of the Confederate army at Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia and almost immediately, celebrations all over Hilton Head erupted. By this point, Mitchelville’s prominence as the first black freedman’s town afforded visitors from dignitaries far and…

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Land Disputes: Hilton Head Island/Mitchelville is Spared

Following Lincoln’s assassination, President Andrew Johnson repealed a special order which distributed abandoned land to the formerly enslaved. This caused a great upheaval in areas surrounding Hilton Head, as planters came back to reclaim their property and labor contracts were now necessary for freedmen to…

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