Fred Lincoln has been working for years in the Cainhoy area to reclaim and restore its African American heritage, starting with this one-room schoolhouse, which was his only hope for an education during the segregated fifties.

He couldn’t save the school that meant so much to him, but he is doggedly working to save heirs’ property from encroaching development. Ironically, the “undesirable, mosquito-ridden” marsh and waterfront property, that was given or sold to freed slaves after the Civil War, is now prime real estate.

The Center for Heir’s Property Preservation (new non-profit), directed by our own Jennie Stephens, is hard at work in the area, and the Wando Huger Community Fund at CCF is helping area residents to assess needs and respond to them.

Other Berkeley County organizations supported by CCF and its donors include Christal Brown Youth Chorus, Trident Literacy Association, Pet Helpers Rescue and Adoption Center, Berkeley Seniors and Helping Hands of Goose Creek.

Photo credit: Peter Frank Edwards