The Florence C. Benson Elementary School was built in 1953-55 as Wheeler Hill School to serve African American students of the community and as a replacement for the overcrowded Celia Dial Saxon Negro Elementary School. An equalization school, it is both an example of...
Located one-eighth mile from the main house, the Fort Hill slave quarters were described in 1849 as being “built of stone and joined together like barracks, with gardens attached.” Some 70-80 enslaved African Americans then lived at Fort Hill. In 1854, Andrew P....
This Civil War fort, named for Gen. Joshua Blackwood Howell (1806-1864,) was built by the U.S. Army’s 32nd Colored Infantry and the 144th N.Y. Infantry to defend Hilton Head and the nearby freedmen’s village of Mitchelville from potential Confederate raids or...
Built in 1935, this structure is the only remaining building that is historically associated with the Fountain Inn Negro School complex, comprised of the grade school built in 1928 (a Rosenwald school), a high school built in 1930, a library, and the Clayton “Peg Leg”...
This church held its first services in a nearby brush arbor shortly after the Civil War and was formally organized in 1880. Trustees purchased this 3-acre lot and members and friends built a frame church here, naming their congregation Friendship AME Church. The...
The original Friendship School was incorporated in 1906. During the 41-year tenure of President James A Goudlock, the school, renamed Friendship College, reorganized and provided African American students with elementary (grades 1-8), high school, and collegiate...
Coffin Point Plantation, a prosperous sea island cotton plantation, became a hub of activity when St. Helena Island was captured by Union troops in 1861. With the Union occupation of the island, the Coffin family fled and 260 slaves were left behind. The United States...
A Union force consisting of nearly 300 members of the 3rd Rhode Island Artillery and the 2nd S.C. Volunteer Infantry, an African American unit, raided several plantations along the Confederate-held Combahee River on June 1-2, 1863. Col. James Montgomery led the...
Pre-dating the American Revolution, this plantation cemetery was the burial site for members of the Hamlin, Hibben and Leland families. Generations of both white and black families are interred here. Thomas Hamlin established Copahee Plantation here in 1696. In 1881...
The Cooper River Historic District includes approximately 30,020 acres along the East and West branch of the river. The district includes many historical buildings and intact cultural landscapes from the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries. Slaves cleared the forests,...
Cooper´s Academy, built in 1905-06, was a private boarding school for the black children of this community until 1927, and a public school 1927-1958. Founded by Moses Cooper, H.J. Cooper, and Ada E. Martin, it was first called Cooper´s Academy, Normal and Industrial...
The first black congregation in Union was organized in 1883 and held services in the Old Union Methodist Church. The congregation purchased this lot in 1894 and constructed this building. KEYWORDS: NATIONAL REGISTER, UNION COUNTY
Established in 1890 by Macedonia Baptist Church, this cemetery was the first created for the African American community in Darlington. In 1946 both Bethel AME Church and St. James Methodist Church established cemeteries adjacent to the Macedonia Baptist Church...
The cotton trade spurred the growth of the slave population on Daufuskie Island from 1805-1842, and ruins of slave houses and archaeological sites remain from this period. The island was largely abandoned during the Civil War but many former slaves returned during...