Near Hemingway in Georgetown County, South Carolina — The American South (South Atlantic)

Pleasant Hill School

Photographed by J. J. Prats, February 21, 2009

1. Pleasant Hill School Marker

Inscription. Pleasant Hill Consolidated School opened in 1938 as an elementary and high school. It also included a cannery and a home economics/farm-shop building. Pleasant Hill housed a middle and high school 1970–1985 and closed in 2000 as Pleasant Hill Middle School. An excellent example of New Deal-era school architecture, it was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.

Erected 2001 by the Pleasant Hill Middle School Parent-Teacher Organization. (Marker Number 22-51.)

Topics. This historical marker is listed in these topic lists: Architecture • Education. A significant historical year for this entry is 1938.

Location. 33° 40.85′ N, 79° 22.05′ W. Marker is near Hemingway, South Carolina, in Georgetown County. It is on Pleasant Hill Drive (State Highway 513) just west of Barberry Road, on the left when traveling west. Touch for map. Marker is in this post office area: Hemingway SC 29554, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this marker is in South Carolina’s Pee Dee.

It is also in the American South

and specifically in the Deep South.

Globally, it is in the North Atlantic Region,

North America,

the Western Hemisphere,

the Western World,

and the Anglosphere.

Historically, it finds itself in what was once the territory of the Mississippian Culture,

one of the original Thirteen Colonies,

one of the Confederate States of America,

and the Antebellum South.

Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within 8 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies: Pleasant Hill Baptist Church (about 500 feet away, measured in a direct line); Birthplace of Jeremiah John Snow / China Grove Plantation (approx. 4.8 miles away); Skirmish At Black Mingo Creek (approx. 5½ miles away); Black Mingo Creek:

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(approx. 5.6 miles away); Black Mingo – Willtown / Black Mingo Baptist Church (approx. 5.9 miles away); Benjamin Britton Chandler (1854–1925) (approx. 6.6 miles away); Black Mingo Presbyterian Meeting House (approx. 6.9 miles away); Ebenezer United Methodist Church (approx. 7.1 miles away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Hemingway.

Pleasant Hill School and Marker image. Click for full size.

Photographed by J. J. Prats, February 21, 2009

2. Pleasant Hill School and Marker

Pleasant Hill Middle School image. Click for full size.

Photographed by J. J. Prats, February 21, 2009

3. Pleasant Hill Middle School

Photographed by J. J. Prats, February 21, 2009

4. Pleasant Hill Middle School

Photographed by J. J. Prats, February 21, 2009

5. Pleasant Hill Middle School

Credits. This page was last revised on May 25, 2026. It was originally submitted on February 23, 2009, by J. J. Prats of Powell, Ohio. This page has been viewed 3,026 times since then and 91 times this year. Photos: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. submitted on February 23, 2009, by J. J. Prats of Powell, Ohio.