This church held its first services in a nearby brush arbor shortly after the Civil War and was formally organized in 1880. Trustees purchased this 3-acre lot and members and friends built a frame church here, naming their congregation Friendship AME Church. The...
This brick-veneered, wood frame building was built in 1927 as a country store opened by Williams Sadler (1865-1930.) An African American businessman, Sadler had managed farmland and another store in McConnells, S.C., before opening the Sadler Store here on the...
In March 1948, eight local Black benevolent societies founded a hospital for African Americans at this site. It was housed in a former residence that was remodeled and expanded to include rooms for treatment, exams, consultation and operating, as well as a dining...
St. James Rosenwald was one of 20 African American schools built in York County in the early 20th century with support from the Julius Rosenwald Foundation, which helped fund nearly 5,000 new schools for African American children across the South. This school was...
St. James Rosenwald was one of 20 African American schools built in York County in the early 20th century with support from the Julius Rosenwald Foundation, which helped fund nearly 5,000 new schools for African American children across the South. This school was...
This church held its first services in a nearby brush arbor shortly after the Civil War and was formally organized in 1880. Trustees purchased this 3-acre lot and members and friends built a frame church here, naming their congregation Friendship AME Church. The...
This house, built in 1930, is typical in materials and methods of construction of those built on the sea islands from the end of the Civil War to the mid-20th century. It was built on land bought by William Simmons (c. 1835-1922), who was born a slave and served in...
Determined to own his own land rather than to rent or sharecrop, former slave Ervin James (1815-1872) bought a 105-acre tract here in 1870. His five sons and a son-in-law later divided the tract into individual farms, and other area families purchased additional land,...
This historic marker narrates the story of William Hill, who served in the American Revolution. Hill built an ironworks near here on Allison Creek about 1776. Hill and his partner, Isaac Hayne, manufactured swivel guns, kitchen utensils, cannon, ammunition, and...
Waverly has been one of Columbia’s most significant black communities since the 1930s. The city’s first residential suburb, it grew out of a 60-acre parcel bought by Robert Latta in 1855. Latta’s widow and children sold the first lots here in 1863. Shortly after the...
This church, established in 1833, was the first Methodist church in Beaufort and was founded as a mission to slaves and free blacks here and on the neighboring sea islands. The congregation had both black and white members but many more black members in the antebellum...
“The Parsonage,” the home of Rev. James B. Middleton, stood here at 5 Short Court (now President’s Place) until 1916. Middleton and his siblings, born slaves, were taught to read and write by their father. After the Civil War, Rev. Middleton, his father and brother...
This congregation, organized by 1835, met first in a brush arbor 1.5 mi. N., then constructed a sanctuary on this site shortly thereafter. Its first pastor was Rev. Anderson Burns and its original trustees were Joseph and Robert Collins, Barnes Flowers, Saylor Pope,...
Beyond military defense, Fort Moultrie tells the story of Sullivan's Island’s role as an entry point and quarantine station for West Africans who were brought to the Carolina colony during the Middle Passage. Historians estimate that slave ships brought 200,000 to...