Black Heritage Trail

Learn about and engage with the City of Seneca portion of the Black Heritage Trail.

More information will be coming soon!

What is the Black Heritage Trail?

The Black Heritage Trail will be one hybrid-model trail located across each of three designated sites: Oconee County, Pickens County, and on the Clemson University campus respectively. The interactive Trail will feature walking paths, interpretive signage, artwork, historical markers, and more. The Trail will expand to include a dedicated website with interactive, digital content that connects and shares local Black history sites, and stories of the people, places, and events of a forgotten past. The Black Heritage Trail project is funded through the generosity of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation’s President’s Initiative, Monuments Grants program.

What is the Melon Foundation?

“The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation is the nation’s largest supporter of the arts and humanities. Since 1969, the Foundation has been guided by its core belief that the humanities and arts are essential to human understanding.”  The Mellon Foundation believes that “the arts and humanities are where we express our complex humanity, and that everyone deserves the beauty, transcendence, and freedom that can be found there.”  Through its grants, the Mellon foundation “seeks to build just communities enriched by meaning and empowered by critical thinking, where ideas and imagination can thrive.”