Gifford in Hampton County, South Carolina — The American South (South Atlantic)

Gifford Rosenwald School

Photographed by Tim Fillmon, July 19, 2021

1. Gifford Rosenwald School Marker Side 1

Inscription.
Gifford Rosenwald School, sometimes Gifford Colored School, was built here in 1920-21. It was one of 500 rural schools built for African-American students in S.C., funded in part by the Julius Rosenwald Foundation from 1917 to 1932. The first of four Rosenwald Schools in Hampton County, it was a two-room frame building constructed at a cost of $3,225.

Gifford Rosenwald School had two to five teachers for an average of almost 200 students a year in grades 1-9 until it closed in 1958. That year a new school serving Gifford and Luray, built by an equalization program seeking to preserve school segregation, replaced the 1921 school. The old school has been used for church services and Sunday School classes since 1958.

Erected 2014 by South Carolina Department of Archives and History; sponsored by The Arnold Fields Community Endowment, Faith Temple Deliverance Ministry, and the Town of Gifford Council. (Marker Number 25-21.)

Topics and series. This historical marker is listed in these topic lists: African Americans • Education. In addition, it is included in the Rosenwald Schools series list. A significant historical year for this entry is 1920.

Location. 32° 51.837′ N,

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81° 14.269′ W. Marker is in Gifford, South Carolina, in Hampton County. It is at the intersection of Columbia Highway (U.S. 321) and Nunn Street, on the right when traveling north on Columbia Highway. Touch for map. Marker is in this post office area: Gifford SC 29923, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this marker is in South Carolina’s Lowcountry,

in the Ashepoo and Combahee and Edisto Basin.

It is also in the American South,

specifically in the Deep South,

and on the Eastern Seaboard. 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 New Spain,

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 7 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies: Beech Branch Baptist Church (approx. 2.3 miles away); The Town of Brunson (approx. 5.2 miles away); Fairfax (approx. 6½ miles away); Allendale County War Memorial

Gifford Rosenwald School Marker Side 2 image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Tim Fillmon, July 19, 2021

2. Gifford Rosenwald School Marker Side 2

(approx. 6.7 miles away); Old Pocotaligo Road, March From The Sea (approx. 6.7 miles away); Hampton Colored School (approx. 6.8 miles away); a different marker also named Hampton Colored School (approx. 6.8 miles away); World War II POW Camp (approx. 6.9 miles away).

Also see . . . Rosenwald School-Gifford. (Submitted on August 22, 2021, by Tim Fillmon of Webster, Florida.)

Gifford Rosenwald School Marker image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Tim Fillmon, July 19, 2021

3. Gifford Rosenwald School Marker

Gifford Rosenwald School image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Tim Fillmon, July 19, 2021

4. Gifford Rosenwald School

Credits. This page was last revised on May 31, 2026. It was originally submitted on August 22, 2021, by Tim Fillmon of Webster, Florida. This page has been viewed 744 times since then and 71 times this year. Photos: 1, 2, 3, 4. submitted on August 22, 2021, by Tim Fillmon of Webster, Florida.