Coastal Discovery Museum is located at historic Honey Horn, a scenic 68-acre property featuring trails, gardens, live oak trees and a butterfly enclosure. Tours Tours and cruises are offered five days a week with a dozen different programs led by museum curators and trained volunteers who enjoy showcasing the history and ecology of the region. Guided nature tours are a...

Home of a planter, this is one of eight antebellum houses in Bluffton’s National Historic District. It’s called a Carolina style farmhouse, and the original slave cabin and summer kitchen remain. It’s preserved as the headquarters of the Bluffton Historic Society and serves as a welcome center for the small town and its walking district. House tours are available with...

Honey Horn is the site of impressive live oaks draped with Spanish moss and historic buildings and farmland dating from the 1850s.Talks and walks through the woods are opportunities to see and learn about nature such as the Native American’s use of the Yaupon holly and other important plants and trees. The Coastal Discovery Museum is located here with offers...

Parris Island has served many purposes since French Huguenot Jean Ribault first settled the island in 1562. After both the Spanish and French had abandoned the island, an Englishman named Alexander Parris became owner and had several plantations on the 8,000-acre island. During the Civil War, it became a coaling station for the Union Navy. This was the beginning of...

Penn School, on a campus listed on the National Register of Historic Places, was established in 1862 by two missionaries from northern states who created an experimental school for freed slaves. In 1900 it became an agricultural and industrial school with the name changed to Penn Normal. The school closed in 1948 and became a community center. Martin Luther King...