List of African-American historic places in South Carolina
This list of African American Historic Places in South Carolina was originally based on a report by the South Carolina Department of Archives & History. This report was originally based on the work of student interns from South Carolina State University.[1]
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Some of these sites are on the National Register of Historic Places (NR) as independent sites or as part of larger historic district. Several of the sites are National Historic Landmarks (NRL). Others have South Carolina historical markers (HM). The citation on historical markers is given in the reference. The location listed is the nearest community to the site. More precise locations are given in the reference.
- Aiken
- Aiken Colored Cemetery (HM)
- Immanuel School (NR)
- Schofield School (HM)
- Bath
- Jefferson High School (HM)
- Beech Island
- Silver Bluff Baptist Church (HM)
- Clearwater
- Storm Branch Baptist Church (HM)
- Langley
- Jacksonville School/Jacksonville Lodge (HM)
- Pendleton
- African American School Site (HM)
- Faith Cabin Library at Anderson County Training School (NR)
Woodlands Plantation (see www.sharedhistory.org)
- Barnewell
- Bethlehem Baptist Church (NR/HM)
- Blackville
- Macedonia Baptist Church (HM)
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- Beaufort
- Berean Presbyterian Church (NR)
- Detreville House (NR)
- First African Baptist Church (NR)
- Grand Army of the Republic Hall (NR)
- Mather School (HM)
- Robert Smalls House (NR/NRL)
- Sons of Beaufort Lodge No. 36 (NR)
- Tabernacle Baptist Church (NR)
- Bluffton
- Michael C. Riley Schools (HM)
- Daufuskie Island
- Hilton Head
- Fish Hall Plantation (HM)
- Mitchelville Archeological Site (NR)
- Mitchelville Site (HM)
- Port Royal
- Camp Saxton (NR)
- Emancipation Day (HM)
- St. Helena Island
- Dr. York Bailey House (NR)
- Coffin Point Plantation (NR)
- Eddings Point Community Praise House (NR)
- Frogmore Plantation Complex (NR)
- Great Sea Island Storm (HR)
- The Green (St. Helena Island) (NR)
- Knights of Wise Men Lodge Hall (NR)
- Mary Jenkins Community Praise House (NR)
- The Oaks (NR)
- Penn Center Historic District (NR/NRL)
- Penn School (HM)
- Seaside Plantation (NR)
- Robert Simmons House (NR)
- Sheldon
- Sheldon Union Academy (HM)
- Cainhoy
- Goose Creek
- Casey (Caice) (HM)
- Howe Hall Plantation (HM)
- Hanahan
- Bowen's Corner (HM)
- Moncks Corner
- Cooper River Historic District (NR)
- Dixie Training School (HM)
- St. Stephen
- St. Stephen's Colored School (HM)
- Fort Motte
- Mount Pleasant Baptist Church (HM)
- Elloree vicinity
- Good Hope Picnic (HM)
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- Adams Run
- Charleston
- Aiken-Rhett House Slave Quarters (NR)
- Avery Institute (NR)
- Centenary United Methodist Church (NR)
- Central Baptist Church (NR)
- Denmark Vesey House (NR/NRL)
- Emanuel A.M.E. Church (NR)
- Harleston-Boags Funeral Home (NR)
- Richard Holloway Houses (NR)
- Holy Trinity Reformed Episcopal Church (NR)
- Maryville (HM)
- Mt. Zion A.M.E. Church (NR)
- Old Bethel United Methodist Church (NR)
- Old Marine Hospital/Jenkins Orphanage (NR)
- Old Plymouth Congregational Church (NR)
- Old Slave Mart (NR)
- The Parsonage/Miss Izard's School (HM)
- Saint Mark's Episcopal Church (NR)
- John Schnierle Jr./Alonzo J. Ransier House (NR)
- Edisto Island
- Edisto Island Baptist Church (NR)
- Hutchinson House (NR)
- Point of Pines Plantation (NR)
- Seaside School (NR)
- Folly Beach
- Folly North Site (NR)
- James Island
- John's Island
- Moving Star Hall (NR)
- The Progressive Club (NR)
- Ladson vicinity
- Lincolnville School (HM)
- McClellanville
- Bethel A.M.E. Church (NR)
- Mount Pleasant
- Boone Hall Plantation (NR)
- Friendship A.M.E. Church (HM)
- Laing School (HM)
- Mount Pleasant Presbyterian Church (HM)
- Sweetgrass Baskets (HM)
- North Charleston
- Jenkins Orphanage (HM)
- Liberty Hill (HM)
- Rantowles
- Stono River Slave Rebellion Site (NR/NRL)
- Stono Rebellion (1739) (HM)
- Chester
- Brainerd Institute (HM)
- Kumler Hall, Brainerd Institute (NR)
- Metropolitan A.M.E. Zion Church (NR)
- Cheraw
- Coulter Memorial Academy Site (HM)
- Dizzy Gillespie Birthplace (HM)
- Pee Dee Union Baptist Church (HM)
- Chesterfield
- Manning
- Pleasant Grove School (HM)
- Trinity A.M.E. Church (HM)
- St. Paul
- Liberty Hill Church (HM)
- Summerton
- Summerton High School (NR)
- Mt. Zion A.M.E. Church (HM)
- Taw Caw Church (HM)
- Darlington
- Darlington Memorial Cemetery (NR/HM)
- Edmund H. Deas House (NR)
- Edmund H. Deas (HM)
- Henry "Dad" Brown (HM)
- Lawrence Reese (1864–1915) (HM)
- Macedonia Church (HM)
- St. James Church (HM)
- South Carolina Western Railway Station (NR)
- West Broad Street Historic District (NR)
- Hartsville
- Butler School (HM)
- Society Hill
- Zachariah W. Wines (HM)
- Lawrence Faulkner (HM)
- Bingham
- Selkirk Farm (NR)
- Rural Dorchester County
- Middleton Place (NR/NRL)
- Harleyville
- St. Paul Camp Ground (NR)
- Summerville
- Alston Graded School (HM)
- Trenton
- Bettis Academy and Junior College (NR)
- Bettis Academy (HM)
- Mt. Canaan Baptist Church (HM)
- Ridgeway
- Camp Welfare (NR/HM)
- Fairfield Institute (HM)
- St. Paul Baptist Church (HM)
- Effingham
- The Assassination of Rep. Alfred Rush (HM)
- Florence
- William H. Johnson Birthplace (HM)
- Roseville Plantation Slave and Freedman's Cemetery (HM)
- Lake City
- Greater St. James A.M.E. Church (HM)
- Mars Bluff
- Gregg-Wallace Farm Tenant House (NR)
- Hewn-Timber Cabins (HM)
- Jamestown (HM)
- Mt. Zion Methodist Church (HM)
- Mt. Zion Rosenwald School (NR/HM)
- Slave Houses, Gregg Plantation (NR)
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- Rural Georgetown County:
- Georgetown
- Jonathan A. Baxter House (NR)
- Bethel A.M.E. Church (NR)
- Bethesda Baptist Church (HM)
- James A. Bowley House (NR)
- Fannie Carolina House (NR)
- Howard School (HM)
- Mt. Olive Baptist Church (HM)
- Joseph H. Rainey House (NR/NHL/HM)
- Hobcaw Barony (NR)
- Murrells Inlet
- Pawley's Island
- Greenville
- Brutontown (HM)
- John Wesley Methodist Episcopal Church (NR)
- Matoon Presbyterian Church (NR)
- Richland Cemetery (NR)
- Working Benevolent Temple and Professional Building (NR)
- Working Benevolent Society Hospital (HM)
- Sterling High School (HM)
- Greenwood
- Hodges
- Good Hope Baptist Church (HM)
- Kirksey
- Mays Crossroads
- Dr. Benjamin E. Mays (HM)
- Hampton
- Cherry Grove Christian Church (HM)
- Hampton Colored School (NR)
- Atlantic Beach
- Atlantic Beach (HM)
- Burgess
- St. James Rosenwald School (HM)
- Conway
- True Vine Missionary Baptist Church (HM)
- Loris
- Loris Training School (HM)
- Myrtle Beach
- Myrtle Beach Colored School (HM)
- Camden
- Bonds Conway House (NR)
- E.H. Dibble Store/Eugene H. Dibble (HM)
- Mather Academy (HM)
- Thomas English House (NR)
- Cauthen Crossroads
- Mt. Carmel A.M.E. Zion Church and Campground (NR)
- Mt. Carmel Campground (HM)
- Kershaw
- Clinton AME Zion Church (NR)
- Unity Baptist Church (NR)
- Lancaster
- Clinton Memorial Cemetery (HM)
- Lancaster Normal and Industrial Institute (HM)
- Gray Court
- Laurens County Training School (HM)
- Laurens
- Bethel A.M.E. Church (NR)
- Charles Duckett House (NR)
- Rich Hill (HM)
- Saint Paul First Baptist Church (NR)
- West Columbia
- Saluda Factory Historic District (NR)
- Saluda Factory (HM)
- Marion
- Taylor's Barber Shop (NR)
- Mullins
- Mt. Olive Baptist Church (NR/HM)
- Newberry
- Hannah Rosenwald School (NR)
- Miller Chapel A.M.E. Church (HM)
- Prosperity
- Pomaria
- Hope Rosenwald School (NR) - Not on SCDAH list. It was a Rosenwald School.
- Elloree, South Carolina
- Shiloh A.M.E. Church (HM)
- Orangeburg
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- East Russell Street Area Historic District (NR)
- Fisher's Rexall Drugs (NR)
- Dukes Gymnasium (NR)
- Major John Hammond Fordham House (NR)
- Hodge Hall (NR)
- Law Offices of Coblyn and Townsend (NR)
- Lowman Hall (NR)
- Mt. Pisgah Baptist Church (NR)
- Orangeburg City Cemetery (NR)
- The Orangeburg Massacre (HM)
- South Carolina State College Historic District (NR)
- South Carolina State University (HM)
- Tingley Memorial Hall, Claflin College (NR)
- Treadwell Street Historic District (NR)
- Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church (NR/HM)
- Williams Chapel A.M.E. Church (NR/HM)
- Orangeburg vicinity
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- Columbia
- Allen University Historic District (NR/HM)
- Alston House (NR/HM)
- Benedict College Historic District (NR/HM)
- Bethel A.M.E. Church (NR/HM)
- Big Apple (NR)
- Blossom Street School (HM)
- Calvary Baptist Church, 1865-1945 (HM)
- Carver Theatre (NR/HM)
- Chappelle Administration Building (NR/NHL)
- Columbia Township Auditorium (NR)
- Harriet M. Cornwell Tourist Home (NR)
- Early Howard School Site (HM)
- Matilda A. Evans House (HR)
- Fair-Rutherford and Rutherford Houses (NR)
- Nathaniel J. Frederick House (HM)
- Good Samaritan-Waverly Hospital (NR/HM)
- Harden Street Substation (NR)
- Heidt-Russell House (HM)
- James M. Hinton House (HM)
- Howard School Site (HM)
- Kress Building (NR)
- Ladson Presbyterian Church (NR/HM)
- Lighthouse & Informer (HM)
- Mann-Simons Cottage (NR)
- North Carolina Mutual Building (NR)
- Matthew J. Perry House (HM)
- Pine Grove Rosenwald School (NR)
- Randolph Cemetery (NR/HM)
- Richard Samuel Roberts House (HM)
- St. Paul Church (HM)
- Sidney Park C.M.E. Church (NR/HM)
- Modjeska Monteith Simkins House (NR/HM)
- South Carolina Statehouse (NR)
- Visanka-Starks House (HM)
- Waverly Historic District (NR/HM)
- Waverly Five and Dime (HM)
- A.P. Williams Funeral Home (NR)
- Eastover
- Goodwill Plantation (NR)
- Siloam School (NR)
- St. Phillip A.M.E. Church (HM)
- St. Phillip School (NR)
- St. Thomas Protestant Episcopal Church (NR)
- Wesley Methodist Church (HM)
- Gadsden
- Hopkins
- Barber House (NR)
- Saluda
- Faith Cabin Library Site (HM)
- Spartanburg
- 15th N.Y. Infantry (HM)
- Old City Cemetery (HM)
- Mary H. Wright Elementary School (NR)
- Mayesville
- Birthplace of Mary McLeod Bethune (HM)
- Goodwill Parochial School (NR)
- Stateburg
- Ellison House (NR)
- Sumter
- Beulah School (HM)
- Kendall Institute (HM)
- Enon Baptist Church (HM)
- Mt. Zion Methodist Church (HM)
- St. Paul African Methodist Episcopal Church (HM)
- Sumter vicinity
- Henry J. Maxwell (HM)
- Union
- Corinth Baptist Church (NR)
- Sims High School (HM)
- Union Community Hospital (NR/HM)
- Bloomingvale
- Cooper's Academy (HM)
- Mt. Zion A.M.E. Church (HM)
- Greeleyville
- McCollum-Murray House (NR/HM)
- Kingstree
- Stephen A. Swails House (HM)
- Newport
- William Hill (HM)
- Rock Hill
- Afro-American Insurance Company Building (NR)
- Clinton Junior College (HM)
- Emmett Scott School (HM)
- Hermon Presbyterian Church (NR)
- McCrory's Civil Rights Sit Ins (HM)
References
- ^ State Historic Preservation Office (June 2009). "African American Historic Places in South Carolina" (PDF). South Carolina Department of Archives & History. Archived from the original (pdf) on 5 August 2010. Retrieved 31 January 2010.