Working on "The Walk" memorial

Volunteers at Woodmanston

News and Special Events

Are you looking for a great gift? Visit our gift shop and consider buying a LeConte-Woodmanston 2010 calendar or a Le Conte's Sparrow print. 

What's new on our website? View the LeConte watercolors and the new LeConte pear page.

Read the latest Coastal Courier article.

Our series of Super Saturday educational programs at Woodmanston is over for now but will start up again in Summer 2010. To get an idea of what we do on Super Saturdays check out the June Super Saturday gallery showing the presentation by Steve Hein, Director of the Wildlife Center and Georgia Southern University's Lamar Q. Ball Raptor Center. If you have any questions contact our Program and Education Outreach Coordinator or call our Events Coordinator (912) 884-6500. Super Saturdays are sponsored by Target, United Way of the Coastal Empire and the Savannah Presbytery.

Coastal Courier archives: July 2009, April 2009, March 2009, March 2009,  January 2009, December 2008, November 2008, October 2008

Lots of changes are taking place at LeConte-Woodmanston thanks to many supportive individuals and organizations.

Work continues on "The Walk" memorial. In September we received valuable assistance from volunteers as well as LeConte-Woodmanston board members.

A campaign has begun for brick "adoptions". Engraved bricks will honor those 6,000 persons claimed as slaves in Liberty County in the 1860 U.S. Census. A $50.00 donation will purchase one brick; a $125.00 donation will fund one square yard of the walkway and both include a 1 year membership in the LeConte-Woodmanston Foundation, Inc. a 501 (c) 3 tax-exempt organization. Go to our "Contributions" page if you would like to participate in this campaign or click here for a form you can print and send. See what our financial goal is for the memorial in 2010.

Our Board of Directors research committee is in the process of determining those enslaved in Liberty County and plantations they worked on.

The Flood Gate Narrative oral history project will begin in September 2009. We will partner with Dorchester Academy and SCAD to complete this important project.

Read an article about construction of "The Walk" and opportunities for you to provide assistance. If you can help please contact us.

Read about the groundbreaking ceremony for "The Walk" memorial and view a gallery of pictures. 

Garden expansion continues. Volunteers and board members, at Woodmanston, continue work to improve and expand the gardens. We are also receiving assistance from a Louisiana collector and will be receiving a grant, from the Garden Consultants of the Garden Club of Georgia, to purchase camellias to plant in winter of 2009. Mary Beth Evans has also taken cuttings from camellias from various older gardens on the coast to include in the garden. In addition, two prominent members of the Savannah Rose Society are interested in helping with our rose garden restoration.

The Southeastern Camellia Society also plans to assist with our garden expansion.

The American Camellia Society has made LeConte-Woodmanston a part of the National Camellia Trail.

If you would like to donate a camellia please check our Camellia Wish List.

Read a recent article by the Garden Club of Georgia.

Members of SOS Wildlife Resources are making plans for a Raptor Trail and a Native's Exhibition Garden at LeConte-Woodmanston. 

The Georgia Iris Society has generously offered to donate iris bulbs for our formal gardens.

The Georgia and Florida Daffodil Societies will help us to locate 36 varieties of bulbs that existed in Louis's historic garden. Read Southern Edition article - "Daffodils in Early Southern Gardens"

If you would like to contribute a plant to LeConte-Woodmanston check our Plant Wish List.

If you want to offer support or volunteer, please visit our "Get Involved" page.

View a list of our current supporters.

To read more about projects and changes at Woodmanston go to our Recent Updates page.