by greenbook_admin | May 16, 2024
The first pastor of this c. 1865 church was Rev. Augustus Z. Carr. The present church building, constructed in 1882 of wood, is located approximately 100 feet from the original site. The brick Gothic Revival building, remodeled in 1908, features two square crenelated...
by greenbook_admin | May 16, 2024
In 1897, local black schoolteacher Frazier Baker was appointed postmaster of Lake City by the new Republican administration of President William McKinley. With a new state constitution just adopted to remove blacks from politics, many white South Carolinians were...
by greenbook_admin | May 16, 2024
Alfred Rush (d. 1876), an African American state representative for two terms during Reconstruction, was assassinated near here, about 1/2 mi. from his home, on May 13, 1876. Rush, who represented what was then Darlington County in the S.C. House 1868-70 and 1874-76,...
by greenbook_admin | May 16, 2024
Robert Smalls School was completed in 1953 and named for black Civil War hero and Reconstruction-era politician Robert Smalls. It is significant in the area of education for its association with the South Carolina “Equalization School” building program. This was a...
by greenbook_admin | May 16, 2024
Randolph Cemetery was established by a group of African American civic leaders in 1872 and expanded in 1899. They named the cemetery for Benjamin Franklin Randolph, an African American who was assassinated by white men while campaigning for the Republican party in...
