Beginning in December 1821, Vesey and other free blacks met in his home on Sunday evenings to plan a rebellion for the summer of 1822. As the date for the rebellion grew closer, one slave who heard of the plot reported it to his master. Several leaders of the...
Dennis High School, which was constructed in 1936, was the first high school for African Americans in Lee County and drew students from Bishopville and rural areas outside the town. The handsome substantial brick school building improved education for African American...
Rev. James Graham built this house c. 1785. It became known as “the Mission” during Reconstruction, when Mrs. Rachel C. Mather of Boston occupied the house. She and other Baptist missionaries built Mather School in Beaufort to educate African Americans. The house is...
This store, constructed in 1891 on what was then the corner of 6th Avenue (now Broad Street) and DeKalb Streets, was the second home of Eugene Heriot "E.H." Dibble (1855-1934) and Brothers Grocery, which sold “general merchandise” as well as “heavy and fancy...
John Birks “Dizzy” Gillespie (1917-1993), a founder of modern jazz, was born in a house on this site. He lived here until 1935 when his family moved to Philadelphia. An innovative trumpeter and bandleader, he was known for his bent horn, bulging cheeks, humor, and...
For Dori Sanders, the farming life and the writing life go hand in hand. It's that richness of place that serves as a wellspring for her writings. A best selling author, Dori has been featured in Gourmet magazine (August 2004) and Southern Lady magazine (July 2004)....
This house was built c. 1915 for Dr. York Bailey, St. Helena Island’s first African American doctor and its only physician for more than 50 years. Bailey ordered the parts for the house from a mail-order catalog and they were shipped to Beaufort, then brought across...
Historic Drayton Hall near Charleston is renowned for its architectural sophistication and high standards of preservation, and is quickly gaining attention for its interpretation of African American life and contributions from 1738 to the Civil Rights era. The...
The first school for African American students in Gaffney was opened at this church in 1899 under the direction of Rev. R.C. Campbell. By 1920 it remained as one of only 10 schools in the county that served African American students. A night school serving adults was...
On this site stood Howard School, a public school for blacks established after the Civil War. By 1869 there was a two-story frame building large enough for 800 pupils. Partially funded by the Freedmen’s Bureau, the school reportedly was named for Oliver O. Howard,...
This church was founded about 1869 by Mary Scott “Aunt Mary” Harvin and held its first services in a nearby brush arbor. In 1881 church trustees purchased a one-half acre lot here for $35.00. The present building, constructed in 1901, was described as “enlarged and...
The small wood frame building, c. 1900, is a rare example of a praise house. Praise houses were first established on plantations as places to meet and worship. Since there were few formal church buildings on St. Helena Island, most islanders could only walk or ride to...
The Cannon Street Hospital, a three-story brick building, once stood on this site. Established in 1897, its primary mission was to serve the African American community of Jim Crow era Charleston. Its official name was the Hospital and Training School for Nurses. Dr....
The Historic Markers sponsored by the Heritage Council of North Augusta in 2014 honors the African American community that was established in 1930 after two floods on the Savannah River washed away most of the town of Hamburg. That town had become a predominantly...