Hilton Head has granted the preservation project a lease on 15 acres of town-owned land in the north of the island where part of Mitchelville once stood. In May, an exhibition building with historic panels will be erected on the site - the first outward signs of the new plans. As Black History Month in the US and Canada draws to a close, the little-known story of the first free black town establis
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