Map: Penn Center Walking Tour Map

Penn School

Map: Penn Center Walking Tour Map

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The National Park Service presents a pamplet showing the Penn Center Walking Tour map and descriptions. The source provides short profiles of the historic buildings and landmarks in the Penn Historic District on St. Helena Island in Beaufort County, South Carolina. Penn Center, formerly called Penn School, was the location for one of the first schools for newly freed African Americans, established in 1862. 

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