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Beaufort County - Michael C. Riley School
Beaufort County - Michael C. Riley School

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This is the site of two schools that served the black community of southern Beaufort County for most of the twentieth century. Bluffton Graded School, a small frame building constructed about 1900...
Beaufort County - The Green
Beaufort County - The Green

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The Green has long served as a meeting place and celebration site for St. Helena Island's African American residents. Such activities as Emancipation Day, celebrating the adoption of the Emancipation...
Beaufort County | Mather School
Beaufort County | Mather School

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Shortly after the Civil War, Rachel Crane Mather of Boston founded Mather School in Beaufort. In 1882 the Woman's American Baptist Home Mission Society assumed support of the venture, operating it as...
Howard Connor: Earliest Days | Digital Traditions

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Connor Pottery, Ashland, Benton County. Interview recorded in October 1981. Connor was born in Wickliffe, Kentucky, the son of journeyman potter Charles Tipton Connor. C. T. Connor established a...
Howard Connor Photos | Digital Traditions
Howard Connor Photos | Digital Traditions

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Connor was born in Wickliffe, Kentucky, the son of journeyman potter Charles Tipton Connor. C. T. Connor established a pottery in Ashland, Mississippi in 1940, less than twenty miles from the...
Collin Rhodes Photos | Digital Traditions
Collin Rhodes Photos | Digital Traditions

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Collin Rhodes (1811-1881) owned or co-owned a number of pottery factories including Pottersville, Phoenix Factory, and finally the Collin Rhodes Factory (ca. 1843) in Edgefield during the early to mid...
Sustainability at Biltmore Estate | Palmetto Scene

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When George Vanderbilt envisioned his grand estate in Asheville, N.C. in the late 1800s, his goal was to be a self-sustaining property. Today, still family owned, the Biltmore continues to honor his...
Phoenix Factory Photos | Digital Traditions
Phoenix Factory Photos | Digital Traditions

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The Phoenix Stone Ware Factory was established ca. 1840 by Collin Rhodes and his partner Robert Mathis. Mathis and Rhodes were the former co-owners of the Pottersville factory when they opened the...
Colleton County - Tuskegee Training Ground
Colleton County - Tuskegee Training Ground

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In the late 1920's end 1930's a rough landing strip was made on the farm of C.C. Anderson just outside of Walterboro. Starting in 1941, as part of the World War II effort, the U.S. Government acquired...
Thomas Chandler Photos | Digital Traditions
Thomas Chandler Photos | Digital Traditions

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Thomas Chandler (1810-1854) was perhaps the most skillful potter to work in Edgefield. Born in Drummondtown, Virginia, he is believed to have been a descendant of John Chandler of Fulham, England, who...
Berkeley County - Dixie Training School
Berkeley County - Dixie Training School

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The first public school for blacks in Moncks Corner was founded in 1880. Classes were held in local churches until the first school was built in 1900. The three-room school built here 1918-1920 at a...
Berkeley County - Varner Town Indian Community
Berkeley County - Varner Town Indian Community

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The South Carolina Board of Education established a state-funded Indian school for the Varner Town Indian Community in 1938. This one-room school was closed by the state in 1963, forcing integration...
Georgetown County - Howard School
Georgetown County - Howard School

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Land was purchased January 1, 1866 as a site for the Georgetown Colored Academy. The Academy stood on this land until 1908. By 1908 the old building had been torn down and a new school built. At that...
Georgetown County - Joseph H. Rainey House
Georgetown County - Joseph H. Rainey House

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Joseph H. Rainey served in the South Carolina Senate (1868-1870), and in 1870, he became the first African American to serve in the United States House of Representatives. He was elected to four...
Georgetown County - Fannie Carolina House
Georgetown County - Fannie Carolina House

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This residence, located in the Georgetown Historic District, was the home of Mrs. Fannie Carolina, Jonathan A. Baxter House founder and owner of the Fan-O-Lin Beauty School. The Beauty School was one...
York County - Friendship College
York County - Friendship College

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Friendship Junior College was founded in 1891 under the name Friendship Institute. The first class, with an enrollment of eleven pupils, was held October 11, 1891. Rev. Mansel P. Hall was the teacher...
York County - Emmett Scott School
York County - Emmett Scott School

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This school, founded in 1920, was the first public school for blacks in Rock Hill. Named for Emmett J. Scott (1873-1957), a prominent educator who was then secretary of Howard University, Emmett Scott...
York County - Afro-American Insurance Co.
York County - Afro-American Insurance Co.

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The Afro-American Insurance Company Building was constructed c. 1909 by William W. Smith, an African American architect and builder from Charlotte, North Carolina. It housed the local office of the...
York County - Catawba Indian School | Road Trip
York County - Catawba Indian School | Road Trip

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Although recognized by South Carolina, the Catawba did not receive federal recognition until 1941. In 1959 they petitioned Congress to terminate their tribal status, and tribal landholdings were...
York County - McCrory's Civil Rights Sit-ins
York County - McCrory's Civil Rights Sit-ins

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This building, built in 1901, was occupied by McCrory's Five & Dime from 1937 to 1997. On February 12, 1960, black students from Friendship Jr. College in Rock Hill were denied service at the McCrory...
Horace Brown: Face Jug | Digital Traditions
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"Horace Brown makes a face jug as remembered by his son." The daughter of Mississippi potter Homer Wade Stewart, Hattie Mae married journeyman potter Horace “Jug” Brown. She met Brown when he worked...