Historical Illustration: Port Royal Island, Camp Saxton, Mitchelville

Mitchelville

Historical Illustration: Port Royal Island, Camp Saxton, Mitchelville

02/07/1863

Historical Illustration

The Library of Congress provides February 7, 1863 drawings from Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper of different historical sites in the South Carolina Sea islands, include, Port Royal Island, Camp Saxton, and Mitchelville- one of the first self-governing Black communities, located on Hilton Head Island, South Carolina. The Mitchelville caption reads "Mitchelville, the new south village for contrabands, Hilton Head."

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