Upcoming Events

2025 Annual Oyster Roast

MENU ALL YOU CAN EAT OYSTERS GRILLED CHICKEN GREEN BEANS MACARONI & CHEESE COLE SLAW CORNBREAD BANANA PUDDING ICEDTEA + WATER BYOB MUSIC THE SOME TIME LATER BAND RAFFLE WINNER…

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History & Learning Center, 285 Dataw Drive
St Helena Island, SC 29920 United States
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2025 Dataw Historic Foundation’s Author’s Luncheon with T.I. Lowe

The year is flying by! Time to mark your calendars for the Third Annual Dataw Historic Foundations Author's Luncheon on April 11th. This event is open to everyone. Please mark…

$35.00
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Dataw Island Clubhouse – Carolina Room, 151 Dataw Club Road
St Helena Island, SC 29920 United States
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Past Events

History & Learning Center, 285 Dataw Drive
St Helena Island, SC 29920 United States
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Lecture on the Marquis de la Fayette by Bill Riski

Marquis de la Fayette said, "The moment I heard of America, I loved her; the moment I knew she was fighting for freedom, I burnt with a desire of bleeding…

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History & Learning Center, 285 Dataw Drive
St Helena Island, SC 29920 United States
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History & Learning Center, 285 Dataw Drive
St Helena Island, SC 29920 United States
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2025 Fireside Chat with Denise Bossy

On January 30th, we will mark the 20th Anniversary of the Fireside Chat. In keeping with tradition, we will have an amazing historian as our guest. Associate professor of history…

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Dataw Island Clubhouse – Carolina Room, 151 Dataw Club Road
St Helena Island, SC 29920 United States
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History & Learning Center, 285 Dataw Drive
St Helena Island, SC 29920 United States
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Dataw Island Clubhouse – Carolina Room, 151 Dataw Club Road
St Helena Island, SC 29920 United States
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Oyster Roast

Reservations are full - see you next year.

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TIDES OF TIME: NAVIGATING 40 YEARS ON DATAW ISLAND

Part of Dataw's 40th Anniversary celebration events. PANEL DISCUSSIONS COVERING OUR FOUR DECADES (1980s to 2010s.)

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Dataw Island Clubhouse – Carolina Room, 151 Dataw Club Road
St Helena Island, SC 29920 United States
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Songs from a Sea Island Plantation: Voices of the Past

The music of the Antebellum Era expressed the feelings of the two classes of people on Sea Island Plantations: the white owners and the enslaved blacks. Listen to their songs…

Free
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Dataw Island Community Center, 43 Marina Drive
Dataw Island, SC 29920 United States
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Dataw Island Clubhouse – Carolina Room, 151 Dataw Club Road
St Helena Island, SC 29920 United States
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Sams Plantation Ruins,

Low Country Boil

SOLD OUT!! Thank You!   ANNUAL LOW COUNTRY BOIL, Event Price $35/person Catered by Rabi Brunson/Jimmy Fitts Catering Music by The Alibis DHF member event - join us! Membership: $40 per…

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2023 Oyster Roast

Venue: Sams Plantation Ruins / Cannery on Dataw Island MENU ALL-YOU-CAN-EAT OYSTERS GRILLED CHICKEN GREEN BEANS MACARONI & CHEESE COLE SLAW CORNBREAD COBBLER ICED TEA + WATER BEER + WINE…

$45
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Cannery, 285 Dataw Drive
Dataw Island, SC United States
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Symposium to Discuss Stuarts Town Findings Set for February 4, 2023 @1:00 PM

Public Service Announcement BEAUFORT, S.C. –  A free public symposium to discuss the Search for Stuarts Town, the project to look for evidence of the lost Scottish colony, will be…

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USCB Center for the Arts Auditorium, SC United States
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Fireside Chat with John Warley, JD

Reservations are open online now (at Dataw.com website) or by calling the Member Services Desk at (843) 838-8282. $32++ per person includes: Spinach Salad, Braised Short Rib Dinner, and Pecan…

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Dataw Island Clubhouse – Carolina Room, 151 Dataw Club Road
St Helena Island, SC 29920 United States
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2023 Membership Drive has Begun – Join Now

Membership Form   You can also pick up a membership form in the History & Learning Center.

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History & Learning Center, 285 Dataw Drive
St Helena Island, SC 29920 United States
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Sams Plantation Ruins,

History Lecture – 1893 Hurricane

Tom Watkins will do an encore presentation on the hurricane of 1893.

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History & Learning Center, 285 Dataw Drive
St Helena Island, SC 29920 United States
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History & Learning Center, 285 Dataw Drive
St Helena Island, SC 29920 United States
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Cannery, 285 Dataw Drive
Dataw Island, SC United States
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Oyster Roast – Oct 18, 2021

2021 Oyster Roast is Sold Out - Thank You Dataw!

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Cannery, 285 Dataw Drive
Dataw Island, SC United States
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Live Tour of DHF Website

Contact us at datawhistory1783@gmail.com for link to meeting.

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Video Conference – Zoom, SC United States
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22nd Annual Oyster Roast – POSTPONED

POSTPONED DUE TO PANDEMIC PRECAUTIONS -- 22nd Annual Oyster Roast - Monday, March 23, 2020 in Sams Plantation Ruins. Includes buffet dinner by Jimmy Fitts & music by The Remnants…

$36.00
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Kate Gleason, Libby Rowland, and Beaufort in the 1920’s

Listen to one of Beaufort's favorite historians, Dr. Lawrence Rowland, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, University of South Carolina Beaufort, talk about his mother's connection to Kate Gleason, one of the first…

Free
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St Helena Branch Library, 6355 Jonathan Francis Senior Road
St Helena Island, SC 29920 United States
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Annual Fireside Chat

Featuring Dennis Cannady Dennis is an authority on Roberts Smalls and a Scale Model Craftsman. Make reservations online through the DIC web portal.

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Dataw Island Clubhouse – Carolina Room, 151 Dataw Club Road
St Helena Island, SC 29920 United States
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Luminary Night on Dataw

Making Spirits Bright Please join the Dataw Historic Foundation, Dataw Garden Club, and the Dataw Island Yacht Club for an exceptional luminary night event. It will be a great night…

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Sams Plantation Ruins,

VAC Holiday Boutique

Visit the DHF table and pick up a package of our holiday cards and a copy of our history book, "Dataw: No Ordinary Place".

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Pledge the Pink

More information at the Pledge the Pink website here.

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Low Country Boil

DHF members only! The last day to make reservations is Sunday, October 13th or until we are sold out.

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