Reconstruction Era

U.S. National Park Service

The Reconstruction Era National Monument is a United States National Monument in Beaufort County, South Carolina established by President Barack Obama in January 2017 to preserve and commemorate activities during the Reconstruction Era that followed the American Civil War.

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The Reconstruction Era began during the Civil War and lasted until the dawn of Jim Crow racial segregation in the 1890s. It remains one of the most complicated and poorly understood periods in American History. During Reconstruction, 4 million African Americans, newly freed from bondage, sought to integrate themselves into free society, into the educational, economic and political life of the country. This began in late 1861 in Beaufort County, South Carolina, after Union forces won the Battle at Port Royal Sound and brought the ‘Lowcountry’ along the South Carolina coast under Union control. More than 10 thousand slaves remained there when their owners fled the cotton and rice plantations. The then-Lincoln Administration decided to initiate the ‘Port Royal Experiment’ in Beaufort County to help the former slaves become self-sufficient. Reconstruction Era National Monument includes Darrah Hall on St. Helena Island -- one of the country’s first schools for freed slaves.

RECONSTRUCTION ERA NATIONAL MONUMENT

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A Beaufort, SC national monument to the Reconstruction Era could be expanded to a national park under a bill filed by Reps. Mark Sanford and Jim Clyburn. on April 17, 2018.

Missionaries originally founded this educational and cultural center as a school for enslaved students in 1862, during the second year of the Civil War — the first school in the South created specifically for the education of African Americans.

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On Jan. 12 the public is invited to join the National Park Service (NPS) and park partners to celebrate the one year anniversary of the creation of Reconstruction Era National

Reconstruction Era National Monument

The public is invited to a celebration of the Reconstruction Era National Monument’s one-year anniversary.Festivities will kick off at 10 a.m. Jan. 12 with a program featuring music and remarks from the National Park Service, local congressional delegation and park partners at the Beaufort Arsenal, 713 Craven St.A piece of art by Sonja Griffin Evans to celebrate the anniversary will be unveiled and special talks, tours and activities will be offered at each of the four sites comprising

As ordered reported by the House Committee on Natural Resources on July 18, 2018