Beaufort District Collection Connections

Focusing on local history, Gullah culture, genealogy, natural history,and archaeology of lowcountry South Carolina's historic Beaufort, Hampton and Jasper counties.

28 May 2017

Library Closed for Memorial Day

Beaufort District was one of the first places to observe Decoration Day, the progenitor of today's Memorial Day. Read all about the tradition while the Research Room (and other parts of the Library system) is closed on Monday: http://bit.ly/1jpskqA

Posted by Grace Cordial at 12:00 AM

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The purpose of the Beaufort District Collection is to acquire, preserve, maintain and make accessible a research collection of permanent value that records the history of Beaufort, Hampton, and Jasper counties in lowcountry South Carolina. We have biographies and other nonfiction books, maps, video materials and archival collections about local history including Gullah traditions, natural history, archaeology, genealogy and other topics relevant to this area.

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