by greenbook_admin | May 16, 2024
Redcliffe interprets the history of multiple generations of families (Henleys, Goodwins and Wigfalls) who were enslaved here and at other plantations owned by SC Governor James Henry Hammond, or who worked as sharecroppers and/or paid employees from 1831 to 1875. In...
by greenbook_admin | May 16, 2024
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...
by greenbook_admin | May 15, 2024
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...
by greenbook_admin | May 15, 2024
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...
by greenbook_admin | May 15, 2024
This school, built in 1953, was one of many schools built by the equalization program of Gov. James F. Byrnes, intended to preserve school segregation by building new schools for black students. It was named for Nellie Burke Levister (1884-1968), the first Jeanes...
