Gullah/Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor
538 Spanish Wells RoadThe Gullah/Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor stretches from Wilmington, NC to Jacksonville, FL. It encompasses coastal lands in all four states as well as off-shore islands.
The Gullah/Geechee people are descendants of enslaved Africans from various ethnic groups of west and central Africa. Brought to the New World and forced to work on the plantations of coastal South Carolina, Georgia, North Carolina and Florida, Gullah/Geechee people have retained many aspects of their African heritage due to the geographic barriers of the coastal landscape and the strong sense of place and family of Gullah/Geechee community members.
Today, the cultural and linguistic umbrella of the Gullah/Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor extends from Wilmington, NC to Jacksonville, FL. People who identify as Gullah, or Geechee, represent the many ways that Africans in the Americas have held on to and amalgamated the traditions of Africa with the cultures they encountered both during and after enslavement.
As part of a living, breathing, changing landscape, the Gullah/Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor is not subject to the same restrictions as traditional National Park sites.
The Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor is home to a wide variety of historic places, cultural sites, community festivals and heritage tours. A list of events and sites will be added to the NPS website shortly.
