Between late June and mid-October, visit 1610 Penn Center Circle West on Saturdays from 9:00am to 12:30pm. Enjoy fresh local produce and support local agriculture. The Farmers Market accepts SFMNP-Senior and WIC Vouchers.

This two-story church still bears visible fingerprints of enslaved workers who built it in 1855 for white slaveowners. In late 1862, after newly freed people assumed control of the church, the Penn School held its first lessons there. Now part of Reconstruction Era National Historical Park, the church houses an active congregation. Note: Please be respectful of church activities that may be occurring during your visit.

The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. visited St. Helena Island five times between 1964 and 1967. This park lies at The Corners, long the center of St. Helena Island, and hosts frequent community events, as well as the St. Helena Island Community Market on the last Saturday of each month.

This modern public library has won awards for its design. A Gullah-Geechee exhibit room, Friends of Fort Fremont Diorama, meeting spaces, free wifi, and public internet computers are all available here.

On the site of a dry-goods store founded in 1877, Macdonald Marketplace hosts a gallery of art and antiques, still owned by the founding family.

This local legend at 932 Sea Island Parkway offers pick-your-own strawberries, melons, greens, and pumpkins.

Once the seat of a cotton plantation founded by the Coffin family, this two-story clapboard house with raised basement was about sixty years old when the Union Army occupied St. Helena Island in 1861. It became a center of agriculture for newly freed people during the Port Royal Experiment and afterward. In the 1890s it was purchased as a private residence.

“Praise houses” are traditionally small structures used for worship or other community gatherings. The origins stretch back to before the Civil War, when slave owners limited their size because they feared that when enslaved people met in larger numbers, they plotted rebellions. But many praise houses were built after the Civil War and into the 20th century. Few of these structures remain.

Located at 589 Eddings Point Road, this small structure opened in 1900. It is one of the last three remaining praise houses on St. Helena Island (there were 25 in the 1930s).

At 12 Georgees Trail, this five-acre community-run farm teaches young people entrepreneurial as well as agricultural skills and Gullah culture. Students learn to use produce in recipes at co-owner Bill Green’s The Gullah Grub Restaurant.

This African-American family-run farm at 42 Robert & Clara Trail uses sustainable agriculture methods and offers natural, non-GMO produce and free-range poultry products, as well as homemade baked goods and crafts. Contact them for tours, class visits, and camping opportunities.

Explore St. Helena Island’s beaches and shady, moss-covered lanes by horseback. Camping, pony rides, and lessons are available.

This award-winning local business offers multiple themed kayak tours for adults and children, exploring ecology, rice culture, old-growth forests, dolphins, and more.

Once reserved for wealthy white slaveowners, Hunting Island is one of the last remaining undeveloped sea islands, and its unique, beautiful beach is the biggest draw for locals and visitors alike. The island is also a haven for loggerhead turtles, deer, alligators, rattlesnakes, and hundreds of bird species, and offers a Nature Center, trails for hiking and biking, a fishing pier, and camping facilities. Visit the lighthouse, rebuilt after the Civil War, that survived a devastating 1893 hurricane.

For more outdoor adventure, book an eco-tour to St. Phillips Island. Enjoy a day hiking on trails, beaches and dunes. Catch a glimpse of dolphins, sea turtles, bald eagles, roseate spoonbills, and more.