One of the only remaining Freedman's Houses on Edisto Island, the Hutchinson House tells a powerful story of community and land ownership. We are working with descendants of the family who built the house and lived there for generations to preserve the building and bring the story to life.
Henry Hutchinson
Edisto Island Historic Preservation Society
House Built By Enslaved Man Barely 20 Years After Slavery to be Restored and Turned Into Museum
In 1885, Henry Hutchinson, who had been born into slavery in 1860, built the two-story Victorian-style home on a 10-acre plot of land on Edisto Island, South Carolina, about 42 miles southwest of Charleston.
The Hutchinson House
Built in 1885 and still standing today, the Hutchinson House is a cultural landmark of Edisto Island. In 2016, the property went on sale on the open market and, through a community wide initiative, the Edisto Island Open Land Trust was able to purchase the house so it may preserved and restored.
