Combining research services with community education to bring the stories of Beaufort's Influential Black Past to Life.

The Dr. Joseph Johnson House, 411 Craven Street, Beaufort, Beaufort County, SC -reportedly haunted by the ghost of a Dwarf.

Planting sweet potatoes at John Hopkinson's plantation. (Photo: Library of Congress/Public Domain)Sweet potato planting, Hopkinson's Plantation 1 photographic print on card mount : albumen ; image 15.5 x 20.5 cm, on mount 27 x 34.5 cm. | Photograph shows slaves working in the sweet potato fields on the Hopkinson plantation. Contributor: Moore, Henry P. Date: 1862


The Dr. Joseph Johnson House, 411 Craven Street, Beaufort, Beaufort County, SC -reportedly haunted by the ghost of a Dwarf.
The Whale Branch Archives
Click on a button below and be transferred to information relating to the economic and social history of Northern Beaufort County. Each link transports you to contemporary photos, genealogical sources, historical studies, land grant records and archival materials detailing the oft forgotten role Whale Branch's Gullahs had in the changing the course of the nation during the Civil War.
FACTS ABOUT WHALE BRANCH
Greater Whale Branch is:
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the birthplace of 1st Color Sergeant Prince Rivers (sometimes Manigo) of the 1st South Carolina Colored Volunteers
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the birthplace of well-known artist James Reeve Stuart
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the birthplace of famed Gullah Artist Johnathan Green
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the site of the Battle of Port Royal Ferry
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the 17th Century location of the Yemassee's Huspa Town and the home of the South Carolina's Huspaw King
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the home of Francis Stuart, father of loyalist brothers John and Henry Stuart of Beaufort
*The Whale Branch Project, African American Genealogy with Fallon Green