Two acres of meticulously sculpted plants include graceful arches, spirals, geometrics, abstract shapes and fantasies -- all the work of internationally recognized S.C. topiary artist Pearl Fryar. The garden has been featured on local and national television shows and...
This 5,100-acre historic district includes extant buildings, structures, and rice fields associated with twelve rice plantations along the Pee Dee (Hasty Point, Breakwater, Belle Rive, Exchange, Rosebank, Chicora Wood, Guendalos, Enfield, Birdfield, Arundel,...
Organized in 1873, this church has a rich history steeped in justice and equality. First called Mt. Olivet Methodist Zion Church. This brick church was built 1923-27 under Revs. J.D. Virgil and C.L. Flowers. The church was renamed New Mount Olivet AME Zion Church...
Built between 1927 and 1932, this was a combined elementary and high school through the 1951-52 school year and an elementary school through the 1955-56 school year. It was a six-room frame building, with a small frame lunchroom nearby. Six to eight teachers taught...
The North Carolina Mutual Building was built in 1909 by the N.C. Mutual and Provident Association, a black-owned life insurance company with an office here until the mid-1930s. Built as a two-story commercial building, with a third story added after 1927, it was part...
Built in 1903 by African American builder A.W. Thorne, this is the second building for the Mt. Pisgah Baptist Church congregation, which was organized around the mid-19th century. The brick church features a sophisticated design including a square plan with a...
This church was founded in 1869, when 36 black members of the nearby white-controlled Black Creek Baptist Church left to form their own congregation. Its first minister, Rev. William Hart, served until his death in 1872 and was succeeded by his son, Rev. Alfred Hart,...
This church, with its origin in a brush arbor where services were held during the Civil War, was formally organized in 1873 with a Rev. B. James as its first pastor. Col. James D. Blanding sold the trustees a small parcel to build their first permanent church, a...
This church, founded in 1868, held its early services in a brush arbor. In 1870 trustees purchased this 1.75 acre tract to build a school, the first for black children in the Mars Bluff community. This sanctuary was built in 1875 and extensively remodeled in 1970. ...
This African American church, the first in what is now Cherokee County, was most likely built between 1880 and 1890. It served the Whig Hill, Asbury and Thicketty communities of what was Union County before Cherokee County was created in 1897. Jack Littlejohn...
The first public school for African American students in Myrtle Beach (1930s to 2001), it was a six-room frame building similar to the Rosenwald schools. The school, replaced by Carver Training School in 1953, was torn down in 2001 but was reconstructed nearby at...
Nathaniel J. Frederick, educator, lawyer, newspaper editor and civil rights activist, lived here from 1904 until his death in 1938. This house was built in 1903 by Cap J. Carroll, a prominent businessman and city official whose daughter Corrine married Frederick in...
The town of Maryville, chartered in 1886, included the site of the original English settlement in S.C. and the plantation owned by the Lords Proprietors 1670-99. When the old plantation was subdivided into lots and sold to local blacks in the 1880s, they established a...
Mather Academy was founded in 1887 by the New England Southern Conference of the Women’s Home Missionary Society of the Methodist Church. It succeeded a Freedmen’s school opened during Reconstruction by Sarah Babcock, who returned to Massachusetts, married Rev. James...