Seabrook Village
About Seabrook Village:
Award-winning Historic Seabrook Village is a unique, African-American
living history museum on the Georgia coast just 35 miles south of
Savannah.
The Seabrook community was established through federal land grants made possible by General William T. Sherman's Field Order 15 (1865), a policy that came to be known as "forty-acres-and-a-mule." Freedmen settled as landowners on the same lands they had once worked as slaves. Armed with little but their newly found freedom, a plot of land, and the determination to build a brighter future for themselves and their children and grandchildren, the freedmen of Seabrook represent the African-American Pioneer Experience.
Historic Seabrook Village is operated by a non-profit foundation and is dedicated to education, research and the authentic portrayal of African-American history and culture from 1865 to 1930. It is governed by a biracial local board of directors. Almost all artifacts, land and structures have been donated by collectors and members of the local community.
