Lincolnville in Charleston County, South Carolina — The American South (South Atlantic)
Lincolnville School
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Lincolnville Elementary School
Photographed by Cosmos Mariner, May 13, 2023
1. Lincolnville School side of the marker
Lincolnville School. Lincolnville School, the first public school for black students in this community, stood here from 1924 to 1953. Built at a cost of $6,100, it was one of more than 5000 schools in the South funded in part by the Julius Rosenwald Foundation between 1917 and 1932. Four teachers taught grades 1-8 in a frame school with four classrooms and an auditorium, on a four-acre lot on Broad Street.
Lincolnville Elementary School. In 1953 Lincolnville School was covered with brick veneer and expanded to become Lincolnville Elementary School, with four classrooms, a library, and a cafeteria/auditorium. Students attended grades 1-7 there until Charleston County schools were desegregated in 1969.
Erected 2019 by South Carolina Department of Archives and History; sponsored by Lincolnville Elementary School Alumni Association. (Marker Number 10-47.)
Topics and series. This historical marker is listed in these topic lists: African Americans • Architecture • Education. In addition, it is included in the Rosenwald Schools series list. A significant historical year for this entry is 1924.
Location. 33° 0.544′ N, 80° 9.517′ W.
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Regionally, this marker is in the Lowcountry. 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 2 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies: Lincolnville (about 700 feet away, measured in a direct line); The Axtell Dam at Sawmill Branch (approx. one mile away); Summerville Water Works (approx. 1.2 miles away); Mayor Berlin G. Myers (approx. 1.2 miles away); Guerin's Pharmacy
Photographed by Cosmos Mariner, May 13, 2023
2. Lincolnville Elementary School side of the marker
Also see . . .
1. The Founding of Lincolnville, SC.
In 1867, seven men, headed by Richard Harvey Cain, an AME minister, took a ride on the South Carolina Special, a local train. They were looking for sites that the South Carolina Railway Company wanted to sell. These seven Black men purchased Six hundred, twenty acres of land for $1000 from the South Carolina Railway Company. These acres of land would become the Town of Lincolnville.(Submitted on May 19, 2023, by Cosmos Mariner of Cape Canaveral, Florida.)
2. Lincolnville's first African American public school.
The Town of Lincolnville in Charleston County is a historically African American community. Descendants of the original settlers still thrive here today amongst the schools, churches, cemeteries, and homes established by their ancestors, while actively preserving their rich Gullah Geechee heritage and celebrating their ancestors' ability to overcome adversity during Reconstruction.
Photographed by Cosmos Mariner, May 13, 2023
3. Lincolnville School Marker
3. Julius Rosenwald Foundation.
The rural school building program for African-American children was one of the largest programs administered by the Rosenwald Fund. Over $4.4 million in matching funds stimulated construction of more than 5,000 one-room schools (and larger ones), as well as shops and teachers' homes, mostly in the South, where public schools were segregated and black schools had been chronically underfunded. This was particularly so after disenfranchisement of most blacks from the political system in southern states at the turn of the 20th century.(Submitted on May 19, 2023, by Cosmos Mariner of Cape Canaveral, Florida.)
Photographed by Cosmos Mariner, May 13, 2023
4. Charles Ross Municipal Complex Sign
Proudly Served His Beloved
Lincolnville
Mayor
1967-1988
Photographed by Cosmos Mariner, May 13, 2023
5. Lincolnville Town Hall & Community Center (former site of Lincolnville School)
Credits. This page was last revised on May 29, 2026. It was originally submitted on May 19, 2023, by Cosmos Mariner of Cape Canaveral, Florida. This page has been viewed 1,319 times since then and 116 times this year. Photos: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. submitted on May 19, 2023, by Cosmos Mariner of Cape Canaveral, Florida.
