The original core of Edisto Island Baptist Church was built in 1818 to serve the island’s white planters. Enslaved African Americans attended the church with their owners, and the original slave gallery still lines both sides of the sanctuary. After Edisto Island was...
A native of Sumter County, Edmund H. Deas moved to Darlington in the 1870s and became a prominent force in local politics. He remained active in the Republican Party long after the end of Reconstruction, serving twice as the party’s county chairman and four times as...
Eliza’s House is a small frame building named for Eliza Leach (1891-1986), who worked at Middleton Place for more than 40 years and was the last person to live in the house, and is one of several structures on the grounds that interprets African American life. The...
This house, which was built c. 1816, was purchased in 1838 by William Ellison, a free African American. Ellison became a successful plantation owner. He owned and operated a cotton gin and owned almost fifty slaves. His house is included in the Stateburg Historic...
The congregation of Emanuel AME was organized c. 1865 with Rev. Richard H. Cain as its first pastor. The church was built on the legacy of an African Methodist Church, which had thrived in the early 19th century, but had been banned after the Denmark Vesey conspiracy....
This house is an intact and significant example of a one-story hipped roof house, an early 20th century vernacular architectural form common to St. Helena Island. It was built c. 1915 by Tecumseh Alston, a carpenter, for his brother Emanuel. Emanuel “Mannie” Alston,...
This school, founded in 1920, was the first public school for blacks in Rock Hill. Named for Emmett J. Scott (1873 - 1957), a prominent educator who was then secretary of Howard University, Emmett Scott School included all 12 grades until 1956 and was a junior high...
This church was organized in 1872 by Rev. Benjamin Lawson and held early services in a brush arbor. The first sanctuary, a log building, was built about 1883 during the ministry of Rev. S.B.Taylor, its timbers were reused to build a frame sanctuary in 1905. The...
The Fair-Rutherford House stood here from c. 1850 until it was demolished in 2004. Built for Dr. Samuel Fair, it passed through several owners before 1905, when William H. Rutherford (1852-1910) bought and enlarged it. The Rutherford House was built in 1924-25 for...
This site is significant for its role in African American education and social history in SC from c. 1936, when it was built, to 1954, when Anderson County Training School closed with the construction of an equalization school nearby. It is one of only two remaining...
Built in 1932 about 1/2 mi. NE and stocked with donated books, this library was the first of over 110 libraries founded by W.L. Buffington for rural blacks. KEYWORDS: LIBRARY, SALUDA COUNTY
First Calvary Baptist Church descended from African American congregants who left First Baptist Church following the Civil War. These founding members, like many African Americans at the time, sought greater autonomy by breaking from white-controlled churches. The...
A contributing property in the Orangeburg Downtown Historic District, the Kress Department Store was the scene of sit-ins and protests in 1960. KEYWORDS: NATIONAL REGISTER, LUNCH COUNTER, SIT-IN, CIVIL RIGHTS, ORANGEBURG
Founded in 1877 and known by several names during its history, this congregation held its first services in a brush arbor. In 1881 it built a frame church about 2 miles away from here on Flat Creek Road. In 1913 Rev. Henry Hannibal Butler (1887-1948) came to Flat...