This new national part, formerly a national monument, is very interesting. It is actually made up of several different sites, including a couple of St Helena Island that are tied to the beginning of the Penn Center, and the camp at the Naval Hospital. Tours are offered to those sites on different days, and the visitors center is always open. It is in a great restored old building in downtown Beaufort, and even though it is small, it has some really interesting exhibits about reconstruction: economics of the time, education, politics. Very well done, of course.
