Founded in 1876, the congregation of Pine Hill AME Church acquired this site in 1891 and built a sanctuary shortly afterwards. The current building was constructed in 1977. Pine Hill Rosenwald School, one of the first ten Rosenwald schools in the state, was built...
The first public school for African Americans in Clarendon County, Pleasant Grove School was constructed in 1933. The small building included four classrooms and a kitchen, and a basketball court and baseball field were located behind the building. At the time of...
This two-story brick house was built in 1907 as a residence for the president of Harbison College. The college began in 1898 as Harbison College for Colored Youth, an outgrowth of Ferguson Academy, an African American school established in the 1880s. The school was...
First Providence Baptist Church was established by enslaved and free people of African descent in the town of Hamburg. After the Civil War, Hamburg became a center of African American political power in Aiken County. In 1868 three members of the First Providence...
The AME denomination experienced rapid growth after the Civil War and Queen Chapel was among the early churches founded. In 1865, Charleston born AME Bishop D.A. Payne returned to S.C. and brought a group of missionaries to Hilton Head Island. They met with Rev. James...
Randolph Cemetery was established by a group of African American civic leaders in 1872 and expanded in 1899. They named the cemetery for Benjamin Franklin Randolph, an African American who was assassinated by white men while campaigning for the Republican party in...
Oconee County Training School (OCTS) educated African American children (1925-1955). It was originally funded by local taxes and the Peabody fund and was built with eight classrooms. Later it expanded to 26 classrooms for grades 1-10. In 1946, grade 12 was added. OCTS...
African American members of this church, including Denmark Vesey, left in 1817 to form Charleston’s first African Methodist congregation. When that congregation was forced to disband after Vesey was arrested for plotting a slave rebellion, many members returned to...
This cemetery, established on this site about 1900 as the Spartanburg Colored Cemetery, includes many graves moved here from the first black cemetery in the city, established in 1849 1 mi. W. and closed by the expansion of the Charleston & Western Carolina RR....
After the Civil War, this building became a school for African American children, but from 1895 to 1939 it was the home of Jenkins Orphanage. The orphanage was established by Rev. Daniel J. Jenkins for African American children who were orphans or who had poor or...
This church was founded in 1868 by black members of nearby Clear Spring Baptist Church. Rev. John Abraham, their first pastor, held services in a brush arbor until a log church was built on this site. In 1894 it took its current name. Old Pilgrim Rosenwald School,...
The Old Slave Mart is the only known extant building used as a slave auction gallery in South Carolina. Once part of a complex, the Slave Mart building is the only structure to remain. When first constructed in 1859, the open ended building was referred to as a...
The Orangeburg Cemetery Association purchased this land in 1888. When it was chartered in 1889, the Orangeburg City Cemetery became the first non-church-owned cemetery for African Americans in Orangeburg. Many prominent African American residents of Orangeburg are...
Palmetto High School, completed in 1953, was built as a school for African American students. It replaced the previous Rosenwald School completed in 1924. The new school was one of the equalization schools built in the early 1950s as part of an effort to equalize...