EDISTO ISLAND, S.C. (WCSC) - The last home standing from a Black settlement community formed during the Reconstruction Era will welcome visitors after an extensive renovation is complete.

The Hutchinson House stands on Edisto Island, whose vast green land once housed plantations and reveals a story of acres and a home owned by a freedman who was once considered as property himself.

“Henry Hutchinson, his uncle, John Pearson Hutchinson, and Jack Miller: these three men primarily were the builders of the Hutchinson House,” Greg Estevez, Henry Hutchinson’s great-great-grandson, said. “They built it in 1885 because it was a wedding gift to his bride, Rosa.”

The gift, built with love, is still being unwrapped 140 years later.

After gaining his freedom, Henry Hutchinson made his living as a

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