Centenary Rosenwald School was built here in 1924-25. The two-room frame school was one of 500 rural schools in S.C. constructed with partial funding from the Julius Rosenwald Foundation. An average of 125 students a year attended, at first in grades 1-7 but later adding grades 8-12. Centenary School and Rains Colored School closed in 1954 when the equalization program built Terrell’s Bay High School, Terrell’s Bay Elementary and a new Pleasant Grove Elementary. Terrell’s Bay High was desegregated in 1970. It closed in 2003 when two County school districts were consolidated.

Terrell’s Bay High School, Marion, SC, 2018. Photo courtesy of Dr. Larry Watson, SC African American Heritage Commission.

KEYWORDS: ROSENWALD SCHOOL, EQUALIZATION SCHOOL, CENTENARY, MARION COUNTY