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. In South Carolina ...

BEAUFORT COUNTY, S.C. (WCSC) - The Gullah Geechee people of barrier islands in Beaufort County have been fighting against a proposed development since 2022, and so far they are winning in the board ...

For generations, Mary Mack’s family has offered free burial plots to the bereaved families on St. Helena Island. It’s an ...

“It was put in place to prevent gated areas, golf courses, franchise-style businesses from being placed on St Helena Island or any of the outlying islands because we witnessed the displacement of our ...

St. Helena Island residents had the foresight in the ... Instead I had to take out a FEMA loan. Many people are selling their homes, leaving our beloved Island, and this is one of the reasons.

ST. HELENA ISLAND, Sc. (WTOC) - Another fight for property on St. Helena Island. People with the Gullah Geechee Group held a news conference Tuesday to raise support for Inez Miller. Miller says the ...

The book, according to University of Georgia Press, captures what the Gullah people of St. Helena Island still talk about: Their people wanted to “catch the learning” after Northern ...

and the infrastructure to bring people to them," wrote Jessie White, south coast director for the Coastal Conservation League. "The St. Helena Island community has remained committed to a ...

Formerly enslaved people from Edisto Island moved to St ... which separates the heavily wooded Pine Island from the larger St. Helena Island. The island tract is roughly bordered by the Morgan ...

St. Helena, Sc. (WTOC) - Land controversy in the Lowcountry ... all saying the 498 acres of land known as Pine Island on Saint Helena should remain untouched. It’s historically native land, with a ...

The development of a 49-home project with a golf course on St. Helena Island was voted against by the county's planning commission. The new proposal was changed to benefit the residents and ...

The island has just a little more than 4,000 ... one of his caretakers for over a decade. “If you come to St. Helena, people usually know two things: Jonathan the tortoise and Napoleon Bonaparte.” ...