This congregation was founded in 1866, when a group of black members led by Rev. Isaac Brockenton withdrew from the white-controlled Darlington Baptist Church. Tradition says the first meetings of the church were held in the home of Laura Cannon Brown. Brockenton...
The plantation was established in 1676 by Draytons who migrated from Barbados. The family and its descendants prospered from the success of agricultural products cultivated by the family’s enslaved population. Since the Civil War, the extensive gardens have drawn...
This house was built in 1903 for Major John Hammond Fordham, a lawyer and prominent African American citizen of Orangeburg. Fordham, a native of Charleston, moved to Orangeburg in 1874 after he was admitted to the Bar. In addition to practicing law, Fordham served in...
Founded in the early 20th century as Clarendon County Training School, this institution provided both education for black students and advanced training for teachers. The first building, funded by the Slater Fund, burned in the 1920s, and a new one was constructed...
The Mann-Simon Site takes guests on a journey through the challenges, adversity and perseverance of one African American family who lived on the property for nearly 130 years. The new exhibits, which debuted in the fall of 2016, explore the role race played in shaping...
This rice-producing plantation was established in the 18th century. Records show that by 1860 there were over 100 slaves that planted 235 acres of rice at Mansfield. Six slave houses and a slave chapel remain. In 2004, descendents of owner, F. S. Parker, opened a...
This school, built in 1928 and founded by the Marlboro Educational Society, was the first high school for black students in the county. It included students in grades 1-11 until 1948 and added grade 12 in 1949. It was an elementary school 1956-1972, then was a child...
The Mary H. Wright Elementary School, constructed in 1951, was one of the first built in the state with funds from the statewide sales tax used to finance the state’s equalization program. The school is also significant as an excellent example of International-style...
Mary Jenkins Community Praise House is one of only four praise houses remaining on St. Helena Island. The small wood frame building, which was built c. 1900, represents a vernacular architectural form that has survived since the plantation era. Paris Capers, born in...
Marysville School in the Spartanburg County town of Pacolet was listed in the National Register on January 9, 2007. The Pacolet Manufacturing Company built the school in 1915 to educate the children of the African American families that worked in the mills in Pacolet....
Jefferson High School opened in 1956 as a junior high and high school for African American students of southwest Aiken County. The original portion of this school was built in 1953 as the Jefferson Elementary School, also known as an “equalization school” as part of...
The orphanage was established in Charleston in 1891 by the Rev. Daniel Jenkins, an African American Baptist minister, who founded it for black children with city assistance. More than 500 lived there by 1896. Its band played concerts across the US and Europe to help...
Organized soon after the Civil War, Jerusalem Baptist Church is one of the oldest black churches in Darlington County. The first services were held under a brush arbor at a site a few miles from here, and later in a log building there. The church trustees acquired...
This Craftsman house, built by 1903, was the home of Rev. John Benjamin Taylor (1867-1936) until his death. Taylor, a minister and administrator in the Methodist Episcopal Church 1892-1936, was also a longtime trustee of Claflin University, 1908-1928. Educated at...