Press Release
Join us for the Center for Heirs’ Property Preservation’s 7th Annual Unique Lowcountry Outing and Feast at beautiful McLeod Plantation on James Island on Saturday, November 19th from noon until 4 pm. This is an annual celebration that brings together landowners and supporters of the Center from throughout the Lowcountry and beyond.
Participants can enjoy fun, food, and fine company! Activities include historic tours, live music, an auction, a short program featuring updates on the progress of the Center, some special surprise guests, and of course a host of delicious food cooked onsite! Proceeds support the Center's work to protect hers' property and promote sustainable land through increased economic benefit to low wealth, historically underserved families. For tickets and sponsorship opportunities, please click on the link below:
https://secure.qgiv.com/event/outingandfeast/
“This is the one event I look forward too every year,” said Jennie Stephens, CEO of the Center for Heirs' Property Preservation, a Charleston-based nonprofit that helps families and individuals protect their inherited land. “Our Unique Lowcountry Outing and Feast is an event that does help us raise funds, but it's much more than that. It's an outdoor casual opportunity to enjoy great food with the landowners we serve as well as our supporters and funders all together in one special setting.”
McLeod Plantation is a place like no other. Their website describes it as not frozen in time but vibrant, dynamic, and constantly evolving, where the winds of change whisper through the oak trees and voices from the past speak to all who pause to listen. McLeod Plantation was built on the riches of sea island cotton – and on the backs of enslaved people whose work and culture are embedded in the Lowcountry's very foundation. It is a living tribute to the men and women and their descendants that persevered in their efforts to achieve freedom, equality, and justice.
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The Center for Heirs' Property Preservation has been protecting heirs' property through legal education and direct legal services since 2005. In 2013, the Center began promoting the sustainable use of land through forestry education and services to provide increased economic benefit to low-wealth family landowners. The Center provides legal services and forestry services in Allendale, Bamberg, Beaufort, Berkeley, Calhoun, Charleston, Clarendon, Colleton, Darlington, Dillon, Dorchester, Florence, Georgetown, Hampton, Horry, Jasper, Lee, Marion, Marlboro, Orangeburg, Sumter, and Williamsburg counties.
To date, the Center has provided 4,961 persons with free, one-hour “Advice and Counsel” (A&C) with 11,425 clients receiving direct legal services to clear title. A total of 1,501 simple wills have been drafted at free, community Wills Clinics; more than 503 families (who collectively own in excess of 40,000 acres) have benefited from various levels of education and expert resources to develop and implement sustainable forestry management plans, and 319 titles have been cleared on family land with a total tax assessed value of $19.3 million.
