Gullah/Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor

News Release

Release date: Immediate
Contact: Michael Allen, NPS Community
Partnership Specialist
Phone number: (843) 881-5516 X 12

Date: January 30, 2010

The Gullah/Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor Commission (GCCHCC) will conduct its first quarterly 2010 business meeting in St. Augustine, FL, on February 19. Open to the public, the meeting will be from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at St. Paul A.M.E. Church, 85 MLK Drive.

The meeting will focus on partnership opportunities with non-profits; cities; towns; federal, state, and county governments. The venue in St. Johns County is the first GGCHCC meeting site outside of the Corridor. It was selected because of its significance to Gullah/Geechee culture and early Spanish history in northeast Florida.

A four-state federal commission, the GGCHCC continues its second year of developing a General Management Plan that will identify how the National Heritage Area will be developed.