Cherry Hill School
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| Location | 210 Dillon Rd. Hilton Head Island, South Carolina |
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| Coordinates | 32°14′05″N 80°41′28″W / 32.2347°N 80.6912°W |
| Area | less than one acre |
| Built | c. 1937 |
| Architectural style | Vernacular |
| NRHP reference No. | 12000965[1] |
| Added to NRHP | November 21, 2012 |
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Cherry Hill School is a historic school for African-American students located at Hilton Head Island, Beaufort County, South Carolina. It was the first separate school building for African-American students on the island.
Architecture
[edit]is a simple, gable-front rectangular one-room frame and weatherboard-sided schoolhouse on an open brick-pier foundation.
History
[edit]The community that built and helped maintain the school consisted of the descendants of the former-slave town of Mitchelville, the first community to mandate education in the South. The community raised the funds to buy land for the school building.[2] The building would replace an earlier Cherry Hill School, which held its classes at St. James parsonage.[2]
The school was built about 1937.[2] It was an elementary school with one teacher that served about 30 students annually. When it opened it taught grades 1–5; 6th grade was added in the 1938 school year.[2]
The school operated until all African-American children attended the new consolidated Hilton Head Elementary School in 1954.[3] The St. James Baptist Church purchased the school in 1956, and used the building as a multi-purpose space.[3] The church extended and renovated the building in 1984.[4][5]
It was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 2012.[1] In 2013 a historical marker was erected near the building.[6]
In 2019 plans were announced to relocate the school as part of an expansion for the Hilton Head Airport.[7]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "National Register of Historic Places Listings". Weekly List of Actions Taken on Properties: 11/19/12 through 11/23/12. National Park Service. 2012-11-30.
- ^ a b c d "Cherry Hill School". The Green Book of South Carolina. Retrieved 2023-02-01.
- ^ a b Mahan, Sally (30 July 2016). "30 Years of Schools". Hilton Head Monthly. Retrieved 2023-02-01.
- ^ "Cherry Hill School, Beaufort County (210 Dillon Rd., Hilton Head Island)". National Register Properties in South Carolina. South Carolina Department of Archives and History. Retrieved 25 February 2014.
- ^ Francetta J. White and JoAnn Zeise (September 2012). "Cherry Hill School" (PDF). National Register of Historic Places nomination. NRHP. Retrieved 25 February 2014.
- ^ "State marker honors historic Cherry Hill School on Hilton Head". The Island Packet. 20 September 2013. Retrieved 1 February 2023.
- ^ "'The church was there first': Hilton Head historic sites being moved for airport expansion". The Island Packet. 29 March 2019. Retrieved 11 March 2023.
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