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Valley Forge National Historical Park
Commander in Chief's Guard Huts
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The Commander in Chief's guard huts are reconstructed log structures representing the quarters where soldiers of General George Washington's guard lived during the Valley Forge encampment.
- Type: Place
The curved, five-part layout of the Thomas Stone House, along with its casual symmetry and mixed architectural styles truly make it a visual showcase.
Reconstruction Era National Historical Park
Labor Reforms of the Port Royal Experiment
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Paying wages to the formerly enslaved people served two purposes for the government officials developing the Port Royal Experiment. It helped to provide a solution of where people should live. Wages also began to put cash into the hands of people who had toiled this land for generations. Many sought to use that cash to secure that land for themselves.
Reconstruction Era National Historical Park
The Port Royal Experiment
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A few weeks after the Battle of Port Royal, US soldiers and sailors came ashore around Beaufort and found thousands of now formerly enslaved people in control of the region. The military had no real plan yet for what to do with these people or even their legal status.
Reconstruction Era National Historical Park
Series: The Port Royal Experiment
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In the fall of 1861 after the Battle of Port Royal, the US military came ashore around Beaufort and found thousands of now formerly enslaved people in control of the region. The military had no real plan yet for what to do with these people or even their legal status. Newly freed Black South Carolinians were active participants. They demanded access to programs to support labor reforms, land redistribution, quality education, and military service.
Reconstruction Era National Historical Park
The Legacy of the Port Royal Experiment
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The Port Royal Experiment was not intended to be a re-envisioning of America, but it evolved as a model for how to transition away from slavery during Reconstruction. Historian Willie Lee Rose termed it a “Rehearsal for Reconstruction.”
Reconstruction Era National Historical Park
Military Service and the Port Royal Experiment
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Military service was an important component of the Port Royal Experiment. The success of the 1st South Carolina Volunteers led to Black military service becoming a core foundation of the arguments in favor of extending citizenship and voting rights to formerly enslaved people.
Reconstruction Era National Historical Park
Education During the Port Royal Experiment
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Education is important for understanding the goals of the Port Royal Experiment, both for the missionaries who established them and for the formerly enslaved people enrolling as students.
Reconstruction Era National Historical Park
Pioneer Fire Company
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Learn about the nearly hundred-year history of the Pioneer Fire Company, a Black Volunteer Fire Company from the Reconstruction era in Beaufort, South Carolina.
Acadia National Park
Commitment, Continuity, Characterize Carriage Roads Partnership
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For more than three decades, Friends of Acadia and Acadia National Park have deftly blended private-sector philanthropy with Congressional action and park management priorities to protect the 45-mile historic carriage road system, including its masonry bridges. In its latest incarnation, that cooperation achieved the complete restoration of the park’s carriage roads, which began in 1994 and culminated in 2021 with the reconstruction of the six-mile Eagle Lake loop.
Reconstruction Era National Historical Park
Land Ownership: An Effect of the Port Royal Experiment
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Learn how the Confiscation Act and Revenue Acts of 1861 set the stage for land reform in the Sea Islands of South Carolina. Land reform that would allow formerly enslaved people to purchase land that generations would cherish.
Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site
St. Vrain's Quarters
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This second level room can be accessed from the first-floor dining room or the plaza promenade on the second floor. The room was used by Bent, St. Vrain, & Company partner Ceran St. Vrain when he was present or otherwise used as a temporary guest quarters.
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Susan Small was a seventeen-year-old wife and mother when she escaped to freedom with her infant son Philip aboard the Confederate steamer the "Planter."
- Type: Place
On the left side of the memorial core, the bronze heroic-sized statue of Eisenhower as 34th President of the United States places him at the center of the White House Oval Office flanked by sculptures of civilian and military advisors, symbolizing the balance Eisenhower struck between conflicting demands of national security and peaceful progress. The bas-relief global background depicts a map of the world symbolizing Eisenhower's role as a world statesman and preeminent inte
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John Small freed himself, his wife Susan, and their infant son Phillip during a dangerous escape aboard the Confederate steamer, Planter. As the ship’s engineer, John was instrumental in the success of the mission in which he and pilot Robert Smalls brought a total of sixteen men, women and children out of slavery and into freedom.
Reconstruction Era National Historical Park
William C. Morrison
- Type: Person
The story of an enslaved man in Charleston liberating himself aboard a stolen Confederate vessel, who came to Beaufort, purchased property, served in the military, owned a business, and was elected to political office – sounds like a familiar story to many in the South Carolina Lowcountry. However, most people have never heard of William C. Morrison.
- Type: Person
Abram Allston piloted his way to freedom onboard the Planter, and then joined the Navy, but spent the rest of his life fighting for recognition and a military pension.
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Robert Smalls shocked the Confederacy when he piloted the CSS Planter to the Union naval blockade outside of Charleston Harbor. He later returned to Charleston Harbor as a Union naval pilot and fought in several naval engagements in South Carolina waters. After the Civil War, Smalls represented his native Beaufort district in the US Congress.
Appomattox Court House National Historical Park
George Peers
- Type: Person
Resident of Appomattox Court House and Appomattox County Clerk and for nearly 40 years.
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A moment of freedom becomes a lifetime of service – and a mystery. From his escape on the Planter with Robert Smalls to a long history of military service, learn Gabriel Turner's story in this article.