This noted humanitarian and educator was born five miles north of Mayesville, S.C., on July 10, 1875. She was one of the first pupils of the Mayesville Mission School, located fifty yards west of this marker, where she later served as a teacher. . . . — — Map (db m27402) HM
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Goodwill School was established by missionaries from the Northern Presbyterian Church shortly after the Civil War. The school served freed people and their children. In an 1872 report, the Committee on Freedmen of the . . . — — Map (db m224681) HM
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A Railroad Town
As with many rural South Carolina towns,
Mayesville grew up around a railroad depot.
The Wilmington and Manchester Railroad
built the depot in 1853 on land owned by
Matthew Peterson Mayes, known to . . . — — Map (db m29430) HM
