According to St Helena Island’s website, it served as a high-security colonial prison from 1867 due to overcrowding in Brisbane’s jails. Join the conversation Add your comment to this story ...

A dusky shark was tagged off the coast of Jacksonville, Fla. Her tracker has pinged off the coast of St. Helena island before she moved north along the South Carolina Coast 29,385 people played ...

One St. Helena Island native turned to the folks attending Beaufort County’s planning commission meeting to make sure her point was heard. “Do you know what the word preserve means?

St. Helena Island and some of its surrounding barrier islands have been part of a Cultural Protection Overlay District since 1999. Marquetta Goodwine, also known as Queen Quet, the chieftess of the ...

BEAUFORT COUNTY, S. C. (WSAV) – The Beaufort County Sheriff’s Office (BCSO) is investigating after they say a passerby found a young woman dead by a dirt road on Saint Helena Island. Around 9: ...

The Penn Center Bell on Saint Helena Island, S.C. By Cassie Premo Steele Special to Free Times And the Penn School was founded in the spring of 1862 by two White women from Pennsylvania, Laura M ...

St. Helena Island residents had the foresight in the 1990s to put the Cultural Protection Overlay zone in place to protect Gullah/Geechee culture, rural landscapes, working farms and fishing villages.

James R. Bishop, from Saint Helena Island, is charged with six counts of sexual exploitation of a minor first degree and six counts of sexual exploitation of a minor third degree. The Beaufort County ...

Elvio Tropeano wants to build a high-end golf resort on St. Helena's Pine Island Plantation. But Beaufort County has a cultural protection overlay that prohibits golf courses, gated communities and ...

Residents of St. Helena Island in South Carolina aim to keep a golf course from being developed. They want to protect the culture of the Gullah Geechee people who live there.

ST. HELENA ISLAND, S.C. (WSAV) — A St. Helena Island woman was charged with murder after allegedly drowning her child and attempting to drown another child, according to the Beaufort County ...

According to St Helena Island’s website, it served as a high-security colonial prison from 1867 due to overcrowding in Brisbane’s jails. Originally published as St Helena Island: ...