Penn Community Services

Penn Community Services is a building in Beaufort County, South Carolina. Penn Community Services is situated nearby to the school Penn Center, as well as near Saint Helena Island.

Type: Building
Also known as: “Penn Industrial School”
Address: SC

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Penn Center and Saint Helena Island.

Penn Center

School

Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.

The Penn Center, formerly the Penn School, is an African-American cultural and educational center in the Corners Community on Saint Helena Island. Founded in 1862 by Quaker and Unitarian missionaries from Pennsylvania, it was the first school founded in the Southern United States specifically for the education of African-Americans. Penn Center is situated 400 feet east of Penn Community Services.

Saint Helena Island

Island

Photo: Marion Post Wolcott, Public domain.

Saint Helena Island is a Sea Island in Beaufort County, South Carolina, United States. The island is connected to Beaufort by U.S. Highway 21. The island has a land area of about 64 sq mi and a population of 8,763 as of the 2010 census.

St. Helena Parish Chapel of Ease Ruins

Church

Photo: Hhoschton, CC BY-SA 3.0.

St. Helena Parish Chapel of Ease Ruins is a historic site in Frogmore, South Carolina on Saint Helena Island. The Anglican chapel was constructed in 1740 by enslaved people on Saint Helena Island as a chapel of ease for parishioners who had difficulty traveling to worship at the Parish Church of St. St. Helena Parish Chapel of Ease Ruins is situated 1 mile south of Penn Community Services.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Beaufort.

Beaufort

Photo: bobistraveling, CC BY 2.0.

Beaufort is a city in Beaufort County, South Carolina, United States, and its county seat. Chartered in 1711, it is the second-oldest city in South Carolina, behind Charleston.

Penn Community Services

Location: Beaufort County, South Carolina, South, United States, North America
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Latitude

32.38797° or 32° 23′ 17″ north

Longitude

-80.57761° or 80° 34′ 39″ west

Elevation

23 feet (7 metres)

Open location code

864X9CQC+5X

OpenStreetMap ID

node 367805166

OpenStreetMap feature

building=yes

GeoNames ID

4590785

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