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Kate Gleason, Libby Rowland, and Beaufort in the 1920’s

St Helena Branch Library 6355 Jonathan Francis Senior Road, St Helena Island, SC, United States

Listen to one of Beaufort's favorite historians, Dr. Lawrence Rowland, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, University of South Carolina Beaufort, talk about his mother's connection to Kate Gleason, one of the first US women engineers, and their connection to Beaufort of the Roaring Twenties. Presented right around the corner at the St. Helena Branch Library. Co-sponsored by…

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22nd Annual Oyster Roast – POSTPONED

Sams Plantation Ruins

POSTPONED DUE TO PANDEMIC PRECAUTIONS -- 22nd Annual Oyster Roast - Monday, March 23, 2020 in Sams Plantation Ruins. Includes buffet dinner by Jimmy Fitts & music by The Remnants We will have the raffle drawing on Monday. We will publish the list of winners following the drawing. (If you still want to buy raffle…

$36.00

Live Tour of DHF Website

Video Conference - Zoom SC, United States

Contact us at datawhistory1783@gmail.com for link to meeting.

Oyster Roast – Oct 18, 2021

Cannery 285 Dataw Drive, Dataw Island, SC, United States

2021 Oyster Roast is Sold Out - Thank You Dataw!

Oyster Roast

Cannery 285 Dataw Drive, Dataw Island, SC, United States

History Lecture – 1893 Hurricane

History & Learning Center 285 Dataw Drive, St Helena Island, SC, United States

Tom Watkins will do an encore presentation on the hurricane of 1893.

2023 Membership Drive has Begun – Join Now

History & Learning Center 285 Dataw Drive, St Helena Island, SC, United States

Membership Form   You can also pick up a membership form in the History & Learning Center.

Fireside Chat with John Warley, JD

Dataw Island Clubhouse - Carolina Room 151 Dataw Club Road, St Helena Island, SC, United States

Reservations are open online now (at Dataw.com website) or by calling the Member Services Desk at (843) 838-8282. $32++ per person includes: Spinach Salad, Braised Short Rib Dinner, and Pecan Pie ~ Member Signature Bar will also be available ~ After dinner, our feature speaker is author John Warley, JD. John is a Lowcountry resident…

Symposium to Discuss Stuarts Town Findings Set for February 4, 2023 @1:00 PM

USCB Center for the Arts Auditorium SC, United States

Public Service Announcement BEAUFORT, S.C. –  A free public symposium to discuss the Search for Stuarts Town, the project to look for evidence of the lost Scottish colony, will be held on Saturday, Feb. 4, from 1-4 p.m. at the USCB Center for the Arts Auditorium. In August of 2022, a team of archaeologists from…

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2023 Oyster Roast

Cannery 285 Dataw Drive, Dataw Island, SC, United States

Venue: Sams Plantation Ruins / Cannery on Dataw Island MENU ALL-YOU-CAN-EAT OYSTERS GRILLED CHICKEN GREEN BEANS MACARONI & CHEESE COLE SLAW CORNBREAD COBBLER ICED TEA + WATER BEER + WINE MUSIC THE SOME TIME LATER BAND RAFFLE WINNER NEED NOT BE PRESENT ORDER TICKETS: Deadline for tickets is March 20 or when tickets are sold…

$45

Low Country Boil

Gazebo

SOLD OUT!! Thank You!   ANNUAL LOW COUNTRY BOIL, Event Price $35/person Catered by Rabi Brunson/Jimmy Fitts Catering Music by The Alibis DHF member event - join us! Membership: $40 per household For membership info please contact Pete Bongiovanni at bonpete69@gmail.com

Luminary Night

Sams Plantation Ruins

At the ruins

Songs from a Sea Island Plantation: Voices of the Past

Dataw Island Community Center 43 Marina Drive, Dataw Island, SC, United States

The music of the Antebellum Era expressed the feelings of the two classes of people on Sea Island Plantations: the white owners and the enslaved blacks. Listen to their songs as we weave a story through music that shows how life and important events were connected to the sounds of those people.  RSVP to Rosemary…

Free

TIDES OF TIME: NAVIGATING 40 YEARS ON DATAW ISLAND

Dataw Island Clubhouse - Carolina Room 151 Dataw Club Road, St Helena Island, SC, United States

Part of Dataw's 40th Anniversary celebration events. PANEL DISCUSSIONS COVERING OUR FOUR DECADES (1980s to 2010s.)

Oyster Roast

Gazebo

Reservations are full - see you next year.

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Cassandra King

Dataw Island Clubhouse - Carolina Room 151 Dataw Club Road, St Helena Island, SC, United States

DHF Board Meeting

History & Learning Center 285 Dataw Drive, St Helena Island, SC, United States

2025 Fireside Chat with Denise Bossy

Dataw Island Clubhouse - Carolina Room 151 Dataw Club Road, St Helena Island, SC, United States

On January 30th, we will mark the 20th Anniversary of the Fireside Chat. In keeping with tradition, we will have an amazing historian as our guest. Associate professor of history at the University of North Florida-Jacksonville, Denise Bossy, has accepted our invitation. She is an expert on the Yamasee Indians, who lived from South Carolina to…

DHF Board Meeting

History & Learning Center 285 Dataw Drive, St Helena Island, SC, United States

Lecture on the Marquis de la Fayette by Bill Riski

History & Learning Center 285 Dataw Drive, St Helena Island, SC, United States

Marquis de la Fayette said, "The moment I heard of America, I loved her; the moment I knew she was fighting for freedom, I burnt with a desire of bleeding for her."   This March, the Beaufort community will celebrate the 200th anniversary of his visit to Beaufort during his grand tour of the United…

DHF Board Meeting

History & Learning Center 285 Dataw Drive, St Helena Island, SC, United States

2025 Annual Oyster Roast-DATE CHANGED to APRIL 1st

Gazebo

Moved from Monday to Tuesday, 1 April 2025 due to bad weather expected on Monday.   BYOB!! MENU ALL YOU CAN EAT OYSTERS GRILLED CHICKEN GREEN BEANS MACARONI & CHEESE COLE SLAW CORNBREAD BANANA PUDDING ICEDTEA + WATER BYOB MUSIC THE SOME TIME LATER BAND RAFFLE WINNER NEED NOT BE PRESENT ORDER TICKETS: Deadline for…

$45

DHF Board Meeting

History & Learning Center 285 Dataw Drive, St Helena Island, SC, United States
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2025 Dataw Historic Foundation’s Author’s Luncheon with T.I. Lowe

Dataw Island Clubhouse - Carolina Room 151 Dataw Club Road, St Helena Island, SC, United States

The year is flying by! Time to mark your calendars for the Third Annual Dataw Historic Foundations Author's Luncheon on April 11th. This event is open to everyone. Please mark your calendars and watch for updates. Natasha Boyd of "Indio Girl" and  Cassandra King of "Tell Me a Story" were well received. When I was…

$35.00