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South Carolina Historical Markers
Administered by the South Carolina State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO), South Carolina’s official state historical marker program was established in 1936 and is one of the oldest programs of its type in the country. Since the program’s creation, more than 2,000 historical markers have been approved.
By Dave W, May 4, 2023
Historic Downtown African American Business District Marker, Side Two
On North Dargan Street south of East Darlington Street, on the right when traveling north.
The 200 and 300 blocks of N. Dargan St. were once the center of a thriving African American business district in Florence. A number of black-owned businesses operated here, including restaurants, barber shops, funeral parlors and pharmacies. . . . — — Map (db m222143) HM
On Fore Road north of Hunt Road, on the right when traveling north. Reported unreadable.
This is the center of Mars Bluff, a rural community 8 mi. across in both directions, bounded by the Great Pee Dee River, Black Creek, & Jefferies Creek. A ferry across the Great Pee Dee began operation in 1767. Patriot and Loyalist militia later . . . — — Map (db m223538) HM
On West Cheves Street west of South Dargan Street, on the right when traveling west.
The McLeod Infirmary was located here in 1906, inspired by the need to provide access to local medical and surgical care for people in the region. Frank Hilton McLeod was born in Richmond Co., N.C. in 1868 and graduated from the Univ. of . . . — — Map (db m218364) HM
On N. Ebenezer Rd. 0.2 miles north of Hoffmeyer Road, on the right when traveling west.
This church, founded in 1806 in what was Darlington District until Florence County was founded in 1888, grew out of an early Methodist “Society.” Rev. Thomas Humphries (d. 1820), who served this and other area circuits, conducted the first . . . — — Map (db m38024) HM
Snow Hill Baptist Church organized in the 1880s. Tradition holds the church initially worshipped under a brush arbor on land owned by farmer London Nettles. In 1888 church trustees acquired this one-acre site from Johanna Hoffmeyer and . . . — — Map (db m291948) HM
On Saint Beulah Road west of Freedom Boulevard (U.S. 301), on the left when traveling east.
St. Beulah Missionary Baptist Church likely organized in the late 19th century. They acquired this site from the Jeffries Creek Free Will Baptist Association in 1925 when Rev. William A. Johnson was pastor. St. Beulah's first church here was a . . . — — Map (db m291723) HM
On West Darlington Street at North Irby Street, on the right when traveling east on West Darlington Street.
Trinity Baptist organized in 1868, with Rev. Wesley J. Parnell (d. 1873) serving as its first pastor. The church initially met at the home of members Jacob and Sarah Lindsey on Front St. before obtaining a property at the corner of Dargan and . . . — — Map (db m222132) HM
On E. Palmetto St. (U.S. 76) close to S. Dargan Street, on the left when traveling east.
Wilson School. Wilson School, later Wilson High School, was the first public school in Florence, and stood here from 1866 to 1906. At first a private school for black children, it was established by the New England Branch of the Freedmen’s . . . — — Map (db m38026) HM
On Francis Marion Rd. (State Highway 327), on the right when traveling north.
This house was built in 1846 for Evander A. Gregg (1818-1874), a planter in what was Marion District. Its high masonry basement and porch form, indigenous to northeastern S.C., make it a fine example of a raised Carolina cottage. It was acquired . . . — — Map (db m37306) HM
On West John Paul Jones Road (County Road 35) at West Cummings Road (State Road S-21-35), on the right when traveling west on West John Paul Jones Road. Reported damaged.
Alfred Rush (d. 1876), a black state representative for two terms during Reconstruction, was assassinated near here, about 1/2 mi. from his home, on May 13, 1876. Rush, who represented what was then Darlington County in the S.C. House 1868-70 and . . . — — Map (db m37339) HM
On Front Street north of King Street, on the right when traveling north.
The Robert Steward House was built between 1740 and 1770 by Robert Stewart (d.1776), planter and militia captain; it was acquired in 1787 by Daniel Tucker (d. 1797), prominent Georgetown merchant. When President George Washington arrived in . . . — — Map (db m4856) HM
On North Church Street (U.S. 29) south of East North Street (South Carolina Highway 183), on the right when traveling north.
Started in 1820 as St. James' Mission, the first church built here in 1825 on land given by Vardry McBee, was consecrated in 1828 by Bishop Nathaniel Bowen as Christ Church. The present church was built 1852-54 with Rev. John D. McCollough as . . . — — Map (db m8506) HM
Near Bennett Street near North Church Street (U.S. 29).
Fountain Fox Beattie House. This house, built in 1834, first stood a few blocks south on East North St. It was built by Fountain Fox Beattie (1807-1863), a textile merchant, for his new bride Emily Edgeworth Hamlin. Their son Hamlin Beattie . . . — — Map (db m11036) HM
On Gap Creek Road 0.5 miles west of Devils Fork Road, on the left when traveling north.
(front)
Gap Creek Baptist Church was established in 1840 and meetings were held in a log building that stood nearby to Gap Creek. In 1850 the church was a founding member of the Enoree River Association. A second church was built c.1859 . . . — — Map (db m198718) HM
On Fork Shoals Road (State Highway 23-146) south of Old Hundred Road (State Highway 23-459).
This farm has been owned by the Hopkins family since 1834, when John Hopkins (1793-1837) purchased it from William Toney. The Greek Revival main house was built ca. 1840, with later additions ca. 1890 and ca. 1925. Hopkins' widow, Lucinda . . . — — Map (db m9068) HM
On U.S. 278 0.2 miles north of South Carolina Highway 462, on the right when traveling north.
The Euhaw congregation constituted this ecclesiastical group 24 March 1832, naming it Coosawhatchie Baptist Church. The South Carolina Baptist Convention met at the church in December 1845 and unanimously voted to join the recently formed . . . — — Map (db m4673) HM
On State Highway 336, on the left when traveling east. Reported missing.
(Front Text):
During this battle of Nov. 30, 1864, Confederate commander Charles J. Colock, by ordering that a nearby field of grass be set ablaze, delayed approaching
Federal troops and gave the Confederates time to collect additional . . . — — Map (db m15780) HM
Laurens County. Laurens County was one of six counties created from Ninety - Six District March 12, 1785. The courthouse here, built in 1838 by Dr. John W. Simpson, and remodeled and enlarged in 1858, 1911, 1940, and in 1973, was entered in . . . — — Map (db m10133) HM
On North Old Laurens Road, on the right when traveling south.
Francis Rapley Owings House. Owings is named for Francis Rapley Owings (1840-1920), who lived in this house after the Civil War. His ancestor Richard Owings III had settled 2 mi. W in 1757. Francis R. Owings, a farmer and merchant, built the . . . — — Map (db m30415) HM
On Indian Mound Road east of Madden Road, on the right when traveling south.
This store, first known as Daniel’s store or the “Beehive,” was built before the Civil War by James Wright Daniel (1814-1904) and several business partners. In 1878 James Martin (1815-1879) bought the store from the other partners and became sole . . . — — Map (db m22966) HM
On St. Charles Highway (State Highway 154) near County Road 31-235, on the right when traveling south.
This church was established in 1809. Its first building, a frame church, was built 1.5 mi. N on Broad Branch. The congregation moved to this site in 1829 and built a second church, also a frame building, in the 1830s. Mt. Zion's longest serving . . . — — Map (db m28385) HM
On St. Charles Road (State Highway 154) at English Lane (State Highway 31-228), on the right when traveling north on St. Charles Road.
One mile east stood the home of T.R. English, Presbyterian minister, statesman, delegate to the Secession Convention. After attending S.C. College, he was admitted to the Bar and served as a legislator, 1830-1832. Ordained in 1833, as the evangelist . . . — — Map (db m28595) HM
On Lynchburg Highway (U.S. 341) at Florence Highway (South Carolina Highway 76), on the right when traveling east on Lynchburg Highway.
Known nationally as "Cotton Ed" and active in 1905 in forming the Southern Cotton Association, Ellison DuRant Smith was elected to the U.S.Senate in 1908 and served until his death in 1944, having been Committee Chairman of Agriculture and of . . . — — Map (db m28124) HM
On Lynchburg Highway (State Highway 341) west of Black Swamp Road (County Road 101), on the right when traveling west.
This church was organized in 1855 by 21 charter members who met in the nearby Methodist church. This Greek Revival church, built of hand-hewn pine and featuring galleries on either side, was built that year with the help of their neighbors. Rev. . . . — — Map (db m23450) HM
On Spring Hill Road (State Highway 31-7) at Rembert Church Road (State Highway 31-37), on the right when traveling east on Spring Hill Road.
Gen. Edward E. Potter commanding 2700 Federal troops left Georgetown on April 5, 1865, to destroy the railroad between Sumter and Camden. On April 16 after a skirmish with militia under Col. James F. Pressley he camped at Spring Hill nearby. The . . . — — Map (db m28128) HM
On Nancy Branch Road (State Highway 31-154), on the right when traveling north. Reported missing.
His home stood on this site. With his wife, Jane Bayard Wilson, he served as a Presbyterian missionary on the western coast of Africa 1833-1852. He advocated ending the slave trade and by 1844 had freed all his own slaves. Foreign Mission Secretary . . . — — Map (db m253125) HM
On Fairview Road (U.S. 178) at Bagpipe Road, on the right when traveling south on Fairview Road.
Pinarea
Pinarea, the plantation owned by soldier, statesman, and manufacturer Paul Quattlebaum (1812-1890), was a mile E. Quattlebaum was a captain in the Seminole War and a brig. gen, in the S.C. militia by 1843. He was a state representative . . . — — Map (db m21869) HM
On New State Road at Old State Road (South Carolina Highway 32-66), in the median on New State Road.
On February 15, 1865, as Gen. W.T. Sherman's Federal army advanced to Columbia, Gen. O.O. Howard's Army of the Tennessee found its way blocked by Confederates entrenched behind Congaree Creek and defending the Old State Rd. bridge. Gen. George G. . . . — — Map (db m39818) HM
On Wilkinson Street south of Poplar Street, on the right when traveling south.
Cayce Colored School. In 1927-28, a wood frame school was built on this site to house the Cayce Colored School. It served African American residents of Cayce and was part of the Brookland-Cayce School District. Grades 1-7 enrolled at the . . . — — Map (db m292219) HM
These earthworks were constructed in early 1865 and were the site of brisk fighting between the Union XV Corps and Confederate forces on Feb. 15, 1865. Approximately 750 enslaved and free African Americans who were impressed into Confederate . . . — — Map (db m229662) HM
On Charleston Highway (U.S. 176/321) near Between Dixiana Road and Old Dunbar Road, on the right when traveling north.
In 1718, at a site 2.7 miles east, near the place where the Cherokee Path crossed Congaree Creek, the first frontier outpost in central South Carolina was established under the command of Captain Charles Russell. The fort was abandoned in 1722, but . . . — — Map (db m21711) HM
On State Road (State Highway 2), on the right when traveling south.
This route follows an old Indian trail path and later in 1747 a public road from Charleston to Granby and points west. The State Road laid out by the newly established Board of Public Works in 1820 from Charleston to Columbia and on to the . . . — — Map (db m21697) HM
On Oakey Springs Drive (State Road 32-100) west of Church Street, on the right when traveling west.
This church was constituted in 1824 as Sandy Run Baptist Church. Its charter members included eleven men and ten women who organized under the leadership of William Pauling, Jesse Hartwell, and others. They named the church after nearby Sandy Run . . . — — Map (db m292217) HM
On Old Lexington Road, on the right when traveling east.
(Front) Old Lexington Baptist Church, known originally as Saluda Baptist Church, was established in 1813. Worship here began, however, as early as the late 1700s when camp meetings were held nearby. Early services were held under a brush arbor and . . . — — Map (db m239265) HM
On Cromer Road at English Drive, on the right when traveling west on Cromer Road.
This is the former site of Oak Grove Colored School, est. 1900 as a public school for African Americans. It was built on a lot previously owned by John Sewell (1831-1915), a Black farmer who lived nearby. He conveyed the land to school trustees . . . — — Map (db m292445) HM
On Fish Hatchery Road (State Highway 32-73), on the right when traveling north.
This military post, also known as Camp Styx,was begun here in 1913 as a National Guard training center. The base sent men to a Mexican border disturbance after Pres. Woodrow Wilson mobilized the guard, 1916. The 1st Infantry Regiment, later the . . . — — Map (db m39078) HM
On Platt Springs Road (State Highway 602) at Springdale Road, on the right when traveling west on Platt Springs Road.
This community, which was incorporated as Springdale in 1955, was known as Long Branch for many years and named for a nearby branch of the Congaree River. At the turn of the twentieth century it was a farming community along both sides of Platt . . . — — Map (db m39160) HM
On South Church Street (U.S. 321) north of South Church Street, on the right when traveling south.
This is the first permanent site of Mount Olive African Methodist Episcopal (A.M.E.) Church. Church leaders acquired this site from Hilliard and Joanna Goodwin in 1899, a few years after the Town of Swansea was chartered. Congregants organized . . . — — Map (db m292216) HM
On Airport Boulevard south of Air Commerce Road, on the right when traveling south.
Activated in 1942 and stationed here at Columbia Army Air Base February through April of 1945, the 319th participated in many World War II campaigns in Europe and the Pacific. The group has received numerous honors, including two Presidential . . . — — Map (db m10741) HM
On Airport Boulevard south of Air Commerce Drive, on the right when traveling south.
The 345th Bombardment Group of the 5th Air Force, the "Air Apaches," served in the Southwest Pacific during World War II. Four squadrons (the 498th, 499th, 500th, and 501st) trained here at Columbia Army Air Base November 1942-April 1943, with . . . — — Map (db m239273) HM
On Airport Boulevard south of Air Commerce Road, on the right when traveling south.
In 1942 the 310th, 321st, 340th groups trained here at Columbia Army Air Base for World War II.
All participated in 9 campaigns and each received 2 Distinguished Unit Citations. — — Map (db m10901) HM
On Airport Boulevard near Air Commerce Road, on the right when traveling east.
Columbia Army Air Base. Built during 1941 as the Lexington County Airport, this airfield became the Columbia Army Air Base shortly after the U.S. entered World War II in December, 1941. The base was used to train crews for
medium . . . — — Map (db m10680) HM
On Old Wire Road east of Glenn Road, on the right when traveling west.
Tradition holds that congregants of St. Paul Church organized in the 1870s and originally worshipped under a brush arbor. By 1884 members had built a church approx. 2 mi. E, near the Congaree River. They purchased that 1/2-acre lot for $3.00 from . . . — — Map (db m292424) HM
On Batchelor Street west of North Street, on the right when traveling west.
This was the last site of a segregated school for Black residents of Brookland-Cayce School District with roots to at least the 1900s. First called the Brookland or New Brookland Colored School, is was located on Lacy Street by c. 1931 when it . . . — — Map (db m291769) HM
On Sunset Boulevard (U.S. 378) at Botanical Pkwy on Sunset Boulevard. Reported missing.
One mile east on the Saluda River stood a 4-story granite building erected by the Saluda Manufacturing Company, incorporated in 1834. Operated by slave labor, it was, at one time, the largest cotton factory in the State. Burned by Sherman Feb. 17, . . . — — Map (db m265012) HM
On Botanical Parkway near Saluda Mill Drive, on the right when traveling west.
This cemetery, thought to contain graves of supervisors and workers in the post-Civil War community of Saludaville, includes 31 marked graves and between 525 and 900 total burials. The Saluda Factory was a modest success before the war and was . . . — — Map (db m39236) HM
On Sunset Boulevard (U.S. 378) at North Lucan Street, on the left when traveling east on Sunset Boulevard.
Prior to the capture of Columbia by Gen. William T. Sherman, Federal artillery shelled the city on February 16, 1865, from the batteries on this hill and in the road at this end of the Congaree River bridge. Shots were fired at the Arsenal (site of . . . — — Map (db m21652) HM
On Augusta Road (U.S. 1), on the right when traveling north.
Before the Revolution, two major trading routes came together near here. Branching to the west was the road to New Windsor Township on the Savannah. The Cherokee Path extended north to Ninety Six and south through Saxe Gotha Township on the . . . — — Map (db m43791) HM
On Boston Avenue at West Campus Road, on the right when traveling west on Boston Avenue.
In 1921, Wil Lou Gray (1883-1984), State Supervisor of Adult Education, founded the first "Opportunity School" in Tamassee, S.C., after launching a series of night schools to eliminate adult illiteracy. An experimental residential program, the . . . — — Map (db m292443) HM
On Highway 501 (U.S. 501) near General Place, on the right when traveling north.
On this site, located about ½ mile northeast, at least 500 Loyalists under the command of Major Micajah Ganey laid down their arms in accordance with a previous agreement made between Francis Marion and Ganey. This treaty signed June 8, 1782 at . . . — — Map (db m9983) HM
On East Palmetto Street (U.S. 76/301) at Hassie Road, in the median on East Palmetto Street.
The Confederacy established a navy yard ¼ mile NW about 1863 on the banks of the Great Pee Dee River. Here, under the command of Lt. Van Renssalaer Morgan, a wooden gunboat, the C.S.S. Pee Dee, was built. Launched by November 1864, it was burned . . . — — Map (db m295750) HM
On Blenheim Highway (South Carolina Route 38) south of Coxe Road, on the left when traveling south.
Great Pee Dee Presbyterian Church. This church, built in 1834, was
organized by Rev. Archibald McQueen
and is the oldest church building in
Marlboro County. Notable features
include its cupola and the fanlights
over the entrance. It was . . . — — Map (db m268915) HM
Near Mt. Carmel Road (State Highway 823) at State Highway 40. Reported missing.
Built ca. 1854 on a mill site in use since the 1770s, this large brick building on Little River was used for grinding corn, wheat, and other grains. A post office and various commercial enterprises operated near the mill during the 1800s. The . . . — — Map (db m18890) HM
On St. Luke's Church Road, on the right when traveling west.
On December 7, 1756, the Council of the Colony recorded a petition of Jacob Hoffman for 200 acres of bounty land. He was granted this acreage on Palmetto Branch in 1758. The building on this tract, which has long been known as "The Rock House," . . . — — Map (db m13281) HM
On Waterspring Road (State Highway 38-142) near Lime Kiln Road, on the left when traveling east.
This cemetery was the burial site of the Miller family from the early 1800s. The remaining stones erected in 1836, are to John Miller (1750-1854), soldier of the Revolution; his wife, Margaret Ott Miller; and their son, John Miller Jr. Their . . . — — Map (db m25184) HM
On North Road (U.S. 178) at Main Street West (U.S. 321), on the left when traveling west on North Road. Reported unreadable.
In the year 1891, John F. North, Samson A. Livingston, and George W. Pou gave jointly and equally one hundred acres of land to establish a town and railway depot. The separate tracts joined near this spot. The town was named in honor of John F. . . . — — Map (db m219729) HM
On Belleville Road (State Highway 38-29), on the right when traveling west.
Here was the birthplace of Alexander Samuel Salley, who devoted fifty years to the collection, preservation, and publication of the historical records of the state as Secretary of the South Carolina Historical Society, Secretary of the
South . . . — — Map (db m33413) HM
On Purity Street east of Holbrook Street, on the right when traveling east.
As reported in the Times and Democrat Newspaper, on Thursday, February 27, 1936, construction of the three-room Bull Swamp Negro School House commenced! The school served as a beacon of hope, preparation, and promise for all of the students who . . . — — Map (db m292416) HM
On Treadwell Street (State Road 38-215) north of Russell Street, on the right when traveling north.
In 1930, white Catholic priests in the Redemptorist missionary order assumed charge of local Holy Trinity Parish. In 1939, they opened a mission named "Christ the King" to evangelize to local African Americans. Their first permanent church was . . . — — Map (db m292409) HM
On Amelia Street east of Treadwell Street ( Road 38-215), on the right when traveling east.
This was the site of Christ the King Catholic School for local African Americans. Classes were previously held at Christ the King Church, opened on Treadwell Ave. in 1942. In 1943, the Oblate Sisters of Providence, an order of African American . . . — — Map (db m292408) HM
On Russell Street (State Highway 33) at Lowman Street, on the right when traveling east on Russell Street.
The first Anglican church in Orangeburg Township was established about 1750 by John Giessendanner, and a chapel at Orangeburg was later provided by the Act of 1768 that created St. Matthew's Parish. Following a long dormant period, the Episcopal . . . — — Map (db m26827) HM
On Claflin Circle east of Magnolia Street (U.S. 601), on the left when traveling east.
Civil Rights Meetings. In the early 1960s, this campus was an important meeting place for local college students organizing for civil rights. Organizers included students from Claflin College and neighboring S.C. State College. They chose to . . . — — Map (db m223743) HM
On Claflin Circle, on the right when traveling east.
Claflin College, founded in 1869 as Claflin University, is the oldest historically black college in S.C. and was established to "advance the cause of education, and maintain a first-class institution ... open to all without distinction of race or . . . — — Map (db m47570) HM
On Church Street near Russell Street (State Road 33).
The third court house for Orangeburg County was erected on this site in 1826. It was designed by Robert Mills, who was state architect at that time. This structure was destroyed by Union forces during their occupation of February 12-13, 1865. The . . . — — Map (db m27027) HM
On Boulevard Street Northeast, on the right when traveling south.
Anglicanism was established in Orangeburg Township about 1750. After a period of no recorded activity, efforts were made to rekindle the Anglican tradition resulting in establishment of Episcopal Church of The Redeemer, circa 1850. Catharine C. . . . — — Map (db m47563) HM
On Geathers Street east of Desaussure Circle, on the right when traveling east.
Felton Training School was completed in 1925 and was financed in part by the Rosenwald Fund (1917-1948). It was a four-teacher school for African American students built according to Rosenwald floor plan no. 400. Felton was a practice school . . . — — Map (db m223748) HM
On Bull Street (State Road 38-1061), on the right when traveling west.
This antebellum structure once stood on Orangeburg's Public Square. In 1865 it was occupied by Federal troops. From 1924 to 1955 it housed the first public library in Orangeburg County, organized by the Dixie Club, (1896). Given to the Orangeburg . . . — — Map (db m26992) HM
On Bull Street (State Road 38-1061), on the right when traveling west.
From the time of the first settlement of Orangeburg Township in 1735 until the founding of various denominational cemeteries, this plot of ground was the final resting place for the early inhabitants. The first church in the Orangeburg area was . . . — — Map (db m26943) HM
In 1938, Orangeburg’s first black high school opened in this building, constructed by the Works Progress Administration. It was named for Dr. Robert Shaw Wilkinson (1865-1932), pres. of S.C. State A&M College. The school’s mascot was the . . . — — Map (db m223746) HM
On Belleville Road (South Carolina Route S-38-29) at Mingo Street, on the right when traveling south on Belleville Road.
In 1938, Orangeburg's first black high school opened on Goff Ave. at a campus built by the Works Progress Administration. It was named for Dr. Robert Shaw Wilkinson (1865-1932), pres. of S.C. State A&M College. The school's mascot was the . . . — — Map (db m223739) HM
On Boney Road (State Road 40-1367) north of McNulty Street, on the left when traveling north.
Bethel School. As early as 1908, Bethel School, also known as Blythewood Colored School, opened on land tradition says belonged to Bethel Baptist Church. In c. 1920, the school moved into a two-teacher building built on this site with support . . . — — Map (db m292446) HM
On McNulty Road near Boney Road, on the right when traveling west.
Bethel Baptist Church was founded in 1884 by black members of nearby Sandy Level Baptist Church seeking to organize a separate congregation. They met at first in a brush arbor, then built a frame sanctuary here in 1892. It was covered in granite . . . — — Map (db m43391) HM
On Main Street / Wilson Boulevard (U.S. 21), on the left when traveling north.
The first school built here c.1890 was a two-room frame building that was replaced c.1918 by a two-story brick school. In 1921 another classroom building and an auditorium were added. The federal Works Progress Administration helped fund several . . . — — Map (db m138341) HM
On Longford Road (State Highway 40-54), on the left when traveling east.
This house was built ca. 1855 for George P. Hoffman (1829-1902), a native of N.C. Hoffman ran a nearby sawmill and became the first postmaster of Doko (as Blythewood was first known) in 1856. This area was part of Fairfield County until 1913, . . . — — Map (db m42607) HM
On Winnsboro Road, on the left when traveling north.
The congregation at Little Zion dates to c. 1832, when enslaved individuals worshipped in white-controlled churches. After emancipation, these former slaves founded independent congregations like this one. A group led by Doctor Entzminger . . . — — Map (db m123500) HM
On N. Melton Road, (Sandfield Road) near Russ Brown Road, on the right when traveling east.
Sandfield Baptist Church. Twenty-Five Mile Creek Church, a Primitive Baptist congregation, was organized in this area before 1772. It was renamed Sandfield Church by ca. 1830 and the mother church for Cedar Creek, Harmony, Jackson Creek, and . . . — — Map (db m43103) HM
On Blythewood Road (State Highway 40-59) near Locklier Road, on the right when traveling west.
Twenty-Five Mile Creek Church, a Primitive Baptist congregation, was organized in this area before 1772. The mother church for several area Baptist churches, it was renamed Sandfield ca. 1830 and stood about 3 mi. E. Sandfield Baptist Church was . . . — — Map (db m42996) HM
On Atlas Road at Bible Way, on the right when traveling east on Atlas Road.
This church, founded in 1963, was originally about 3 mi. NW on Bluff Road. It was organized by Elizabeth Simmons (1900-1965), known as "Mother Simmons," Andrew C. Jackson (1927-2006), and eleven other adults and their children. The first church, . . . — — Map (db m292427) HM
On Gadsden Street at Richland Street, on the left when traveling north on Gadsden Street.
In this cemetery, 2½ blocks south, on Gadsden Street, are buried many distinguished Jewish citizens, including two mayors of Columbia: Mordecai Hendricks DeLeon (1791-1849) and Henry Lyons (1805-1858). The Benevolent Society was organized in . . . — — Map (db m28126) HM
This home’s first owner was John R. Cornwell, an African American business man and civic leader who owned a successful barber shop on Main St. After his death, Cornwell’s wife Hattie and daughters Geneva Scott and Harriett Cornwell lived here. . . . — — Map (db m123485) HM
On Taylor Street at Wayne Street, on the right when traveling west on Taylor Street.
Harriette “Hettie” Eugenia Anderson, acclaimed African American art model of the Gilded Age, grew up in a house at this site. Anderson was born in Columbia around 1875 to Caroline (Lee) Scott and Benjamin Dickerson. Her mother's family were local . . . — — Map (db m226614) HM
On Wayne Street, on the right when traveling south.
Richard Samuel Roberts (1880-1936), a photographer who documented individuals, families, and institutions in Columbia’s black community and across S.C., lived here from 1920 until his death. Roberts, a self-taught photographer, moved his family . . . — — Map (db m53404) HM
On Richland Street at Lincoln Street, on the left when traveling west on Richland Street.
On the SW corner of this square was located the Palmetto Armory, later called Palmetto Iron Works, originally built for converting flint and steel muskets into percussion guns. Arms and munitions were manufactured here during the Confederate War, . . . — — Map (db m21802) HM
On Barnes Street west of Zion Avenue, on the left when traveling west.
Tradition holds that early members of Brown Chapel African Methodist Episcopal (A.M.E.) Church worshipped under a brush arbor. The church formally organized by the 1880s. Congregants built their first house of worship at this site around 1895 on . . . — — Map (db m292429) HM
Near S. Main Street, on the right when traveling south.
In April 1786 Alexander Gillon, Henry Pendleton, Richard Winn, Richard Hampton, and Thomas Taylor, Commissioners appointed to lay out Columbia, are said to have met under an oak which grew near here. According to tradition the first court and jury . . . — — Map (db m46449) HM
On Main Street at Gervais Street (U.S. 1/378), on the right when traveling south on Main Street.
On March 2, 1961, over 200 African American college and high school students marched 6 blocks from Zion Baptist Church to the S.C. State House in an NAACP-organized protest of racial segregation. Led by Benedict College theology student David . . . — — Map (db m219128) HM
On Harden Street, on the right when traveling south.
The Lighthouse & Informer.The Lighthouse & Informer, long the leading black newspaper in S.C., was a weekly published here from 1941 to 1954 by journalist and civil rights advocate John Henry McCray (1910-1997). . . . — — Map (db m35824) HM
On Henderson Street at Calhoun Street, on the left when traveling north on Henderson Street.
1900 Block of Henderson Street. This block features a dense collection of late 19th and early 20th c. houses historically associated with and home to African Americans. Residing here through the mid-1900s were many middle- and working-class . . . — — Map (db m146467) HM
On Harden Street (South Carolina Route 555) at Read Street, on the right when traveling north on Harden Street.
In 1940, a segregated public housing complex for African Americans opened at this site. Named after nearby Allen University and Benedict College, Allen Benedict Court was the second public housing project in Columbia built under the Housing Act . . . — — Map (db m292404) HM
On Gervais Street (U.S. 1 - 378) at Assembly Street (U.S. 76), on the right when traveling east on Gervais Street.
In 1786, when Columbia was established as the
State Capital, the General Assembly decided
that two principal thoroughfares should run
perpendicular to each other through the
center of town. One of these, Assembly Street,
was named for the . . . — — Map (db m7498) HM
On Harden Street at Blanding Street, on the left when traveling south on Harden Street.
Benedict College, founded in 1870 by the American Baptist Home Mission Society to educate freedmen and their descendants, was originally called Benedict Institute. It was named for Stephen and Bathsheba Benedict of Rhode Island, whose bequest . . . — — Map (db m52787) HM
On Sumter Street at Taylor Street, on the right when traveling north on Sumter Street.
This church, founded in 1866, was one of the first separate African-American congregations established in Columbia after the Civil War. It met in buildings on Wayne St., at Lincoln & Hampton Sts., and at Sumter & Hampton Sts. before acquiring . . . — — Map (db m223589) HM
On Main Street at Blanding Street, on the right when traveling north on Main Street.
Originally named Walnut Street, Blanding Street was by 1869 renamed for Abram Blanding, a Massachusetts native who came to Columbia in 1797 to take charge of Columbia Male Academy. Blanding was admitted to the bar in 1802 and served two terms in the . . . — — Map (db m21823) HM
On Main Street at Blossom Street (U.S. 76), on the right when traveling north on Main Street.
This street is thought to take its name from the cotton blossom. Cotton became an important commercial crop in South Carolina after the cotton gin was patented by Eli Whitney in 1794. A variety of cotton, known as Sea Island cotton and grown along . . . — — Map (db m21777) HM
On Blossom Street, on the right when traveling east.
Blossom Street School. Blossom Street School, at the corner of what was then Blossom & Gates (now Park) Streets, was built in 1898 as the first public school in Columbia south of Senate Street. A frame building, it was originally a school for . . . — — Map (db m30075) HM
On Wheat Street east of Sumter Street, on the left when traveling east.
Booker T. Washington School. The two-story main building at Booker T. Washington School, built in 1916, stood here until 1975. At first an elementary school with grades 1-10, it became Booker T. Washington High School with grades 9-10 in 1918, . . . — — Map (db m123474) HM
