This monument illustrates the story of African Americans in South Carolina from the 16th century to the present. Among the 12 scenes carved into the monument are images of an enslaved family on the auction block, freedmen celebrating the Emancipation Proclamation,...
The South Carolina Western Railway Station (now known as the Seaboard Air Line Railroad Station) is significant for its association with several railway companies that played major roles in Darlington’s economy in the first half of the 20th century. The South Carolina...
Located in Cheraw’s historic black business district, the Southern African American Heritage Center is dedicated to collecting, documenting and preserving the contributions of African Americans in Chesterfield County. Visitors will find documents and artifacts on...
This is the oldest black Baptist congregation in downtown Greenville. It was founded in 1867 by members of Greenville Baptist Church (now First Baptist Church), which had been a combined congregation of whites and blacks before the Civil War. Rev. Gabriel Poole, known...
The Julius Rosenwald Consolidated School, built in 1930, was one of almost 500 schools in South Carolina funded in part by the Julius Rosenwald Foundation during the early twentieth century. A frame industrial education building was added in 1936. When the school...
This was originally the slave cemetery for Roseville Plantation, established about 1771 by the Dewitt family and later owned by the Brockinton, Bacot, and Clarke families. By 1850 more than 100 enslaved laborers were growing cotton on this 1200-acre plantation. The...
This Romanesque Revival-style brick church was built in 1912 by Columbus White, a local African American contractor. Saint Paul First Baptist Church was the first black Baptist church in Laurens. The church is included in the Laurens Historic District....
The Saluda Factory, built in the 1830s, was one of the first textile manufacturing plants in the state. It was operated by slave labor and the main products were brown shirting and a colored cotton fabric used in making clothing for slaves. The factory was burned in...
This school was founded by the Freedmen’s Bureau shortly after the Civil War to educate freedmen, women, and children. In 1868, Martha Schofield, a Quaker from Pennsylvania, came to Aiken and began her long career as superintendent. The school soon expanded to this...
The Seashore Farmers’ Lodge No. 767 (circa 1915) is significant as an illustration of the importance of fraternal orders in the cultural life of the Lowcountry African American community in the early 20thcentury. The Lodge provided, as its creed mandated, support for...
This Seaside School, which was built c. 1931 as its second building, is reported to be the oldest African American school remaining on Edisto Island. From 1931 until the construction of a consolidated school in 1954, black residents of Edisto Island received their...
Founded in 1899, Seneca Institute provided elementary and secondary education for African American children. In 1930, it became Seneca Junior College and offered post-secondary education to black students from across the country. The Institute's first principal, Dr....
Established about 1870, this is the largest of four Methodist campgrounds in Dorchester County. Tradition holds that a group of Freedpeople stopped in a grove here for shelter from a storm. Rice planter S. M. Knight asked them to help harvest his fields and after they...
This church, founded in 1886, was organized by Revs. D.A. Christie and C. Heyward. Its first services were in a brush arbor, and its first sanctuary was built nearby in 1887. This sanctuary, a frame building later covered in brick veneer, was built in 1892. Member...