World War II and After (1941-present)
201 highway markers.
Abbeville County
Aiken County
- 02-73A.L. Corbett SchoolA.L. Corbett School for grades 1-12 opened at this site in 1954. The $600,000-facility was funded by the state equalizat...
- 02-32Aiken County Farmer's MarketThe Aiken County Farmers’ Market, founded in 1951, was originally an open air market sponsored by the Edisto Grange. Thi...
- 02-34Jefferson High SchoolJefferson High School opened in 1956 as a junior high and high school for African-American students of Beech Island, Bel...
- 02-82Sardis Elementary SchoolSardis Elementary School opened at this site in 1954. The school served African American residents of Salley and surroun...
- 02-27Savannah River PlantThe Savannah River Plant (SRP) was built 1950-56 by Du Pont for the Atomic Energy Commission. SRP, a nuclear production ...
- 02-44The Detection of the Neutrino, 1956On August 27, 1956, at the Savannah River Plant (now Savannah River Site), Drs. Clyde L. Cowan, Jr. (1919-1974) and Fred...
- 02-41World War II POW CampGerman prisoners of war were held in a camp on this site from November 1943 to May 1946. This camp, one of 21 in S.C., w...
Barnwell County
Beaufort County
- 07-42Cherry Hill SchoolThis one-room frame school, built ca. 1937, was the first separate school building constructed for African-American stud...
- 07-29Michael C. Riley SchoolsThis is the site of two schools that served the black community of southern Beaufort County for most of the twentieth ce...
- 07-69Oyotunji VillageIn 1970, members of the N.Y. Yoruba Temple arrived in Beaufort Co. to found an “African Village” centered on traditional...
- 07-75Washington Street PlaygroundIn 1942 a group of local African American leaders known as the Beaufort County Negro Recreational Association acquired a...
- 07-65World War II POW CampIn Oct. 1943, the U.S. Army opened a prisoner-of-war (POW) camp near here on Pigeon Point Road. It was one of more than ...
Berkeley County
- 08-66Berkeley Training High SchoolBerkeley Training High School, located here from 1955 to 1970, replaced a four-room wood school 1 mi. S at Main St. and ...
- 08-39Dixie Training SchoolBerkeley Training High School, first called Dixie Training School, stood here from 1920 until the 1980s. The first publi...
- 08-72Maude E. Callen ClinicMaude E. Callen (1898-1990) was born in Quincy, FL. She received formal training at Florida A&M Univ. and the Tuskeegee ...
- 08-79S.C.O.P.E. Freedom HouseIn 1965, this was the Berkeley County headquarters of Summer Community Organization and Political Education (SCOPE), a v...
Calhoun County
Charleston County
- 10-35Archibald Rutledge BirthplaceArchibald Hamilton Rutledge (1883-1973), educator, man of letters, and the first poet laureate of S.C., was born at this...
- 10-144Byrnes DownsByrnes Downs dates to the 1940s and was one of several West Ashley subdivisions created to relieve WWII-era housing shor...
- 10-135C.A. Brown High SchoolThis campus was built in 1962 as a high school for African American residents of Charleston’s East Side. Initially known...
- 10-110Charleston StationThe Charleston Station was built in 1956 by the Atlantic Coast Line (ACL). ACL hoped the new station would attract custo...
- 10-88Charleston Tea PlantationThe first confirmed cultivation of tea in the U.S. occurred when French botanist André Michaux brought to plants to Midd...
- 10-77Cigar FactoryThis five-story commercial building, built ca. 1882 as a textile mill, was known as the Charleston Manufacturing Company...
- 10-90Coastal Patrol Base #8The Civil Air Patrol (C.A.P.) was formed in 1941, just prior to U.S. entrance into WWII. C.A.P. air bases were located f...
- 10-107Federal BuildingBuilt 1964-65, this was originally a federal office building that housed more than 30 agencies of the U.S. government. P...
- 10-87Harmon FieldHarmon Field, established in 1927, was one of many parks across the country created with support from the Harmon Foundat...
- 10-80Hospital Strike of 1969Civil rights marches on Ashley Ave. and elsewhere occurred during strikes at two hospitals from March 20 to July 18, 196...
- 10-13James F. ByrnesJames F. Byrnes, American statesman, was born in a house on nearby King Street and grew up in this neighborhood. He atte...
- 10-78James Simons Elementary SchoolThis school, built in 1919 and designed by local architects Benson & Barbot, was the fifth public elementary school in t...
- 10-57Jenkins OrphanageSince 1937 this has been the campus of the Jenkins Orphanage, established in Charleston in 1891 by Rev. Daniel Joseph Je...
- 10-79Kress BuildingThis three-story Art Deco building, built in 1930-31 was a 5- and 10-cent store owned by S.H. Kress & Co. until 1980. Kr...
- 10-95Laing SchoolThe original Laing School was founded in Mt. Pleasant by the Abolition Society of Pennsylvania in 1866. In 1953, Laing H...
- 10-128Little Rock Golf ClubThis was the site of a Black-owned segregation-era golf course for local African Americans. It was opened in 1953 by Ric...
- 10-114Naval Hospital DistrictConstructed 1940-42, this multi-wing complex was the core of a hospital district established to serve the Charleston Nav...
- 10-42Park CirclePark Circle is the focus of the master plan for North Charleston, designed by W.B. Marquis in 1912. One of the first mod...
- 10-148Pinehaven Tuberculosis HospitalPinehaven Tuberculosis Hospital opened at this site in 1953. The 3-story brick hospital was owned by Charleston County a...
- 10-149Rockville Elementary SchoolThis campus was originally Rockville Elementary School. It replaced an older Rockville School that moved to this site be...
- 10-97Septima Clark BirthplaceSeptima Poinsette Clark, who Martin Luther King Jr. called “the Mother of the Movement,” was a nationally influential Ci...
- 10-81The Progressive ClubThe Progressive Club, built in 1962-63, was a store and community center for Johns Island and other Sea Islands until it...
- 10-141Tobin-Boyd Elementary SchoolTobin-Boyd Elementary School opened at this site in 1961 to serve Black residents of the Red Top community. It was part ...
- 10-122W. Gresham Meggett SchoolW. Gresham Meggett School opened in 1952-53 to serve grades 1-8. It was quickly expanded to house James Island’s first b...
Chester County
Chesterfield County
- 13-13Chesterfield Post OfficeThis post office, built in 1937-38, is one of several New Deal-era post offices in S.C. designed by the Public Works Div...
- 13-14Craig ParkThis park was built in 1933-35 by three New Deal-era programs of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s first term. The land was donate...
- 13-18Long High School SiteLong H.S. was completed in 1955 and replaced Coulter Academy as the primary African American H.S. in Cheraw. The school ...
- 13-16Robert Smalls SchoolRobert Smalls School was built in 1953 as a segregated school for African American students. Construction was funded as ...
Clarendon County
- 14-25Briggs Family HouseOn November 11, 1949, local African American families came to this house to sign a petition demanding equal resources in...
- 14-08Liberty Hill ChurchIn 1867, five years after the Emancipation Proclamation, Thomas and Margaret Briggs gave four acres of land to this Afri...
- 14-23Manning Training SchoolManning Training School has origins in the early 20th century with the Slater Fund helped finance Clarendon County Train...
- 14-26Pearson Family HomesiteThis farm was home to the family of Levi Pearson (1894-1970), who with his brother, Hammett Pearson, joined other Africa...
- 14-24Scott's Branch SchoolPreviously located at Taw Caw Baptist Church outside Summerton and at a site on 1st St., Scott’s Branch School moved her...
Colleton County
- 15-22Colleton Training SchoolColleton Training School opened in 1925 and served African American students in the elementary and high school grades. I...
- 15-21Training the Tuskegee AirmenGraduates of the Tuskegee Army Flying School, who belonged to the first African-American units in the U.S. Army Air Corp...
Darlington County
- 16-60Darlington County JailThis building, a New Deal project of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Public Works Administration (PWA), was built in 1937 at a c...
- 16-49Darlington Memorial CenterThis house was built in 1889 by Charles McCullough (1853-1908), who served as town councilman and later as mayor. It was...
- 16-37Darlington RacewayDarlington Raceway, the first superspeedway in NASCAR history, was constructed in 1950 by Harold Brasington, a local rac...
- 16-84Hough's HotelHough’s Hotel, a two-story, 16-room hotel for African Americans, opened at this site in 1946. Established at a time when...
- 16-53Lydia Rural Fire Dept.The Lydia Rural Fire Department, the first rural fire department in this county, was organized in 1954 after fires destr...
- 16-85Primus ParkPrimus Park was formally dedicated in 1962 as a multi-purpose athletic field for African Americans. Efforts to construct...
- 16-75Round OMuch of the land in this vicinity was once part of Thomas Smith’s Round O Plantation. The name derives from a large Caro...
- 16-93South Hartsville Baptist ChurchSouth Hartsville Baptist Church began in 1950 as a mission of First Baptist Church Hartsville (3 mi. N). Members first m...
- 16-80St. Joseph's Catholic ChurchSt. Joseph’s began as a missionary parish to serve Hartsville’s African American community. Established in 1945, the par...
Dillon County
Dorchester County
- 18-34Four Holes Public SchoolAround 1964 a segregated 3-room concrete block school was built here for Native American children of the Four Holes comm...
- 18-37Kennedy-Jenkins Hill High SchoolKennedy High School opened at this site in 1954-55. It served Black families from Dorchester Co. School District No. 3 (...
Edgefield County
Fairfield County
Florence County
- 21-59American Legion StadiumAmerican Legion Stadium opened at this site in 1941. The 2,500-seat facility was built by the Works Progress Administrat...
- 21-26Atomic Bomb Accident at Mars Bluff, March 11, 1958In 1958, in the midst of the Cold War, the U.S. Air Force accidentally dropped an atomic bomb near here. The unarmed 7,6...
- 21-47Civil Rights Sit-InsOn March 3-4, 1960, members of the Florence Youth branch of the NAACP staged protest demonstrations here at the former S...
- 21-56Ebony Guest HouseIn 1949, Ebony Guest House, a prominent local tourist home for African Americans, opened at this site. It was owned and ...
- 21-32Lawton-Chase HouseThis Art Moderne house, completed in 1939 for Joseph Maner Lawton, has housed the Florence Museum since 1953. It was des...
- 21-62Richmond RestRichmond Rest, a popular African American tourist home, opened north of here by 1948. It was owned by Lillie Richmond (d...
- 21-41Whitehead InfirmaryDr. James Whitehead (1906-2004) was a graduate of Lake City H.S. and the Medical University of S.C. After completing his...
Georgetown County
- 22-67Friendly Aid SocietyThe Christian Friendly Aid Society (CFAS), an African American benevolent society, built a lodge here c.1947. The Societ...
- 22-21Howard SchoolAfter purchasing this land January 1, 1866, Georgetown Colored Academy built a school here. By 1908 the old building had...
- 22-69Pawleys Island House of WorshipIn 1946, the Georgetown Ministerial Association resolved to erect a place of Christian worship for summer residents on P...
- 22-51Pleasant Hill SchoolPleasant Hill Consolidated School opened in 1938 as an elementary and high school. It also included a cannery and a home...
Greenville County
- 23-43"Shoeless Joe" Jackson HouseThis house, built in 1940, was originally 3 mi. SW at 119 E. Wilburn Ave. It was the last home of Joseph Jefferson Woffo...
- 23-80Bryson High SchoolBryson H.S. opened in 1954, serving African American students in lower Greenville Co. It was one of the many schools con...
- 23-26Donaldson Air Force BaseGreenville Army Air Base opened on this site in 1942 and trained B-25 bomber crews during World War II. Emphasizing air ...
- 23-61Fountain Inn High SchoolFountain Inn High School was built in 1939 and was the town high school until 1957. It remained in use as Fountain Inn E...
- 23-42Greenville County CourthouseThis Beaux Arts building, built in 1916-18, was the fourth Greenville County Courthouse, from 1918 to 1950. It was liste...
- 23-68John L. Plyler HomeThis house was the boyhood home and birthplace of John L. Plyler (1894-1966), a Furman University alumnus and Harvard La...
- 23-104McClaren Medical ShelterMcClaren Medical Shelter, a one-story brick building on a raised basement, was a privately run hospital for African Amer...
- 23-95Potato HouseThe Simpsonville Potato House was built in 1944 for area farmers to store and cure sweet potatoes. In the early 20th cen...
- 23-60Simpsonville LibraryThis Classical Revival building, constructed in 1940, was the Simpsonville Branch of the Greenville County Library until...
- 23-41The Lynching of Willie EarleThe Willie Earle lynching was the last recorded in S.C. and the one of the last in the South. On the night of February 1...
Greenwood County
- 24-13Dr. Benjamin E. MaysThe spiritual mentor of Martin Luther King, Jr. Born here in 1894. Served as president of Morehouse College 1940-67 and ...
- 24-24Edgewood SchoolThis brick campus opened in 1956 as Edgewood School. Part of Ninety Six School District, Edgewood served local African A...
- 24-14Louis Booker WrightLouis Booker Wright (1899 1984), scholar of American colonial history and Elizabethan culture, was born in the Phoenix c...
Hampton County
- 25-16American Legion HutThis 1933 cypress-log hut is the headquarters of American Legion Post #108. Legionnaires and other local citizens cut cy...
- 25-26Brunson Rosenwald SchoolThe Brunson Rosenwald School, also known as the Brunson Colored School, was built on this site in 1925-26. The two-teach...
- 25-27Estill Rosenwald SchoolThe Estill Rosenwald School (Estill Colored School), was built on this site in 1925-26. Funded in part by the Julius Ros...
- 25-18Plywoods-Plasitcs CorporationThis complex, opened in 1942 as Plywoods-Plastics Corporation, has been significant in the industry and economy of Hampt...
- 25-14World War II POW CampGerman prisoners of war were held in a camp on this site from September 1943 to the spring of 1946. This camp, one of 21...
- 25-25Yemassee Rosenwald SchoolIn 1929 Elvira Jackson sold 4 acres of land to Yemassee School District #26 for $500. The land was to be used to build a...
Horry County
- 26-16Atlantic BeachAtlantic Beach, nicknamed "The Black Pearl," was established about 1934 as an oceanfront community for blacks denied acc...
- 26-27Chestnut Consolidated SchoolChestnut Consolidated School, which was located here 1954-1970, was built under the equalization program of Gov. James F...
- 26-23Coastal Carolina UniversityCoastal Carolina University was founded in 1954 as Coastal Carolina Junior College, holding evening classes in Conway Hi...
- 26-33Horry-Georgetown TechThe S.C. General Assembly created the state technical college system in 1961 amid growing need for industrial training a...
- 26-25Levister Elementary SchoolThis school, built in 1953, was one of many African-American schools built by the equalization program of Gov. James F. ...
- 26-31Military Air Crash SiteNear here on Dec. 5, 1972, thirteen American military officers and airmen were killed on a training mission during the V...
- 26-19Myrtle Beach Army Air FieldMyrtle Beach Army Air Field operated here 1940-47 and grew out of city plans to expand the municipal airport from two gr...
- 26-18Roberts Pavilion 1936-1954The Roberts Pavilion, built in 1936 by William Roberts, was an early open-air oceanfront pavilion on the Grand Strand. T...
- 26-21Sonny's PavilionSonny’s Pavilion, built in 1949 by N.F. “Sonny” Nixon, was an open-air pavilion on the Grand Strand. The rhythm & blues ...
- 26-26Whittemore SchoolWhittemore School, one of the first African-American schools in Horry County, educated elementary and high school studen...
Jasper County
Kershaw County
Laurens County
Lee County
- 31-19Bishopville High SchoolThis high school, built in 1936, is an excellent example of a Colonial Revival school built by the Public Works Administ...
- 31-18Dennis High SchoolDennis High School, built in 1936, was the first high school for African-American students in Lee County. Built on land ...
- 31-21Mount Pleasant High SchoolMount Pleasant High School opened at this location in 1957. It served African American students from southern Lee County...
Lexington County
- 32-17319th Bombardment GroupActivated in 1942 and stationed here at Columbia Army Air Base February through April of 1945, the 319th participated in...
- 32-39345th Bombardment GroupThe 345th Bombardment Group of the 5th Air Force, “the Air Apaches,” served in the Southwest Pacific during World War II...
- 32-43Blinding of Isaac WoodardSgt. Isaac Woodard, a black soldier, was removed from a bus in Batesburg and arrested on Feb. 12, 1946, after a dispute ...
- 32-21Bombardment GroupsIn 1942 the 310th, 321st, 340th groups trained here at Columbia Army Air Base for World War II. All participated in 9 ca...
- 32-50Cayce Colored SchoolIn 1927-28, a wood frame school was built on this site to house the Cayce Colored School. It served African American res...
- 32-13Columbia Army Air BaseBuilt during 1941 as the Lexington County Airport, this airfield became the Columbia Army Air Base shortly after the U.S...
- 32-51Greater St. Paul African Methodist Episcopal ChurchTradition holds that the congregants of St. Paul Church organized in the 1870s and originally worshipped under a brush a...
- 32-46Lakeview SchoolThis was the last site of a segregated school for Black residents of Brookland-Cayce School District with roots to at le...
- 32-35SpringdaleThis community, which was incorporated as Springdale in 1955, was known as Long Branch for many years and named for a ne...
- 32-47Wil Lou Gray Opportunity SchoolIn 1921, Wil Lou Gray (1883-1984), State Supervisor of Adult Education, founded the first “Opportunity School” in Tamass...
- 32-36World War II Bombing RangesLake Murray islands, most notably Lunch Island (since 1945 also called Bomb Island or Doolittle Island), Shull Island, a...
Marion County
Marlboro County
- 35-41Adamsville SchoolAdamsville School opened in 1954 as part of S.C.’s equalization program, an attempt to forestall racial integration by i...
- 35-47East Side SchoolIn addition to classrooms, the original campus included a gymnasium, auditorium, library, labs, a shop, and a former far...
- 35-37Palmer FieldPalmer Field, originally Marlboro Aviation School, operated here from Oct. 1941 to Nov. 1944 as a primary training facil...
Newberry County
Oconee County
- 37-01First Soil Conservation District PlanOn February 4, 1938, Mrs. Ploma M. Adams, owner of this farm, assisted by the Upper Savannah Soil Conservation District,...
- 37-24Mountain Rest SchoolThe building across the road was constructed in 1948 to house the Mountain Rest School. Initially staffed by four teache...
Orangeburg County
- 38-50Christ the King Catholic ChurchIn 1930, white Catholic priests in the Redemptorist missionary order assumed charge of local Holy Trinity Parish. In 193...
- 38-51Christ the King Catholic SchoolThis was the site of Christ the King Catholic School for local African Americans. Classes were previously held at Christ...
- 38-47Civil Rights MeetingsIn the early 1960s, this campus was an important meeting place for local college students organizing for civil rights. O...
- 38-21Hawthorne School of AeronauticsFrom 1941 to 1945, 5924 American & French pilots were trained here, totaling almost 330,000 flight hours. Site is 1 mi. ...
- 38-48Matte E. Pegues New Homemakers CampAt the end of this road is the site of a camp opened in 1946 by the S.C. New Homemakers of America (N.H.A.), an organiza...
- 38-52S.C. State School of LawIn 1946, John H. Wrighten III, a S.C. State student from Edisto Island, applied to all-white Univ. of South Carolina Sch...
- 38-27The Orangeburg MassacreOn February 8, 1968, after three nights of escalating racial tension over efforts by S.C. State College students and oth...
Pickens County
- 39-09Integration With Dignity, 1963Clemson University became the first white college or university in the state to integrate on January 28, 1963. Harvey B....
- 39-31Issaqueena Bombing RangeDuring World War II the U.S. Army Air Force (USAAF) used Lake Issaqueena and surrounding land as a bombing range. The la...
- 39-27Littlejohn's GrillHorace and Gertrude Littlejohn opened Littlejohn’s Grill in a small concrete building in the 1940s. After a c.1950 fire,...
Richland County
- 40-54100th Inf DivisionAt this site on 15 November 1942, Maj. Gen. W. A. Burress received the 100th Infantry Division colors, marking the offic...
- 40-00102nd CavalryFormed 1890 as the Essex Troop of Lt. Cavalry; mustered into the N.J. National Guard in 1893. After World War I service,...
- 40-57106th Inf DivisionNear this site on 15 March 1943 the 106th Infantry Division was officially activated and became known as the "Golden Lio...
- 40-11726th Inf DivisionThe "Yankee" Division, which saw extensive combat in World War I, was mobilized for active duty in World War II in Janua...
- 40-11931st Inf DivisionThe "Dixie" Division, created in 1917, spent most of World War II as a training division, with some units training at Ft...
- 40-964th Infantry DivisionOrganized in 1917, the 4th Infantry Division was stationed in this area at Ft. Jackson during World War II and received ...
- 40-9377th Inf DivisionThe "Statue of Liberty Division" was reviewed by England's Winston Churchill and President Franklin D. Roosevelt after i...
- 40-5687th Inf DivisionActivated at Camp McCain, Miss. in 1942, the "Golden Acorn" Division trained at this site in 1944. The division distingu...
- 40-988th Infantry DivisionActivated in 1918 and inspected by Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower and Lt. Gen. George S. Patton during World War II, the 8th ...
- 40-207Benjamin Mack HouseEducator and civil rights leader Benjamin Mack (1916-1970) lived in this house from the late 1950s until his death in 19...
- 40-182Bible Way Church of Atlas RoadThis church, founded in 1963, was originally about 3 mi. NW on Bluff Road. It was organized by Elizabeth Simmons (1900-1...
- 40-195Canal Dime Savings BankThis three-story building was designed by the noted Columbia architectural firm of W.B. Smith Whaley and Co. Completed i...
- 40-140Carver TheatreCarver Theatre, built about 1941, was one of Columbia’s two exclusively African-American theatres during the segregation...
- 40-196Columbia Civil Rights Sit-InsOn March 15, 1960 five African American students from Benedict College – Charles Barr, David Carter, Richard Counts, Mil...
- 40-213Columbia Hospital "Negro Unit"Columbia Hospital, est. 1892, opened a segregated wing for African Americans in 1934 at its Hampton St. location. In 194...
- 40-233Congaree Action NowOn Sept. 20, 1975, more than 700 people gathered here for Congaree Action Now, a major turning point in the campaign to ...
- 40-211Cyril O. Spann Medical OfficeFrom 1963 to 1979, this was the office of Dr. Cyril O. Spann (1916-1979), one of the first fully trained African America...
- 40-214Edwards v. S.C.On March 2, 1961, over 200 African American college and high school students marched 6 blocks from Zion Baptist Church t...
- 40-154Good Samaritan-Waverly HospitalGood Samaritan-Waverly Hospital, created in 1938 by the merger of two older hospitals, served the black community of Col...
- 40-229Harold Boulware HouseThis was the adult home of pioneering S.C. civil rights attorney Harold R. Boulware (1913-1982). Born and raised in Irmo...
- 40-184Harriett Cornwell Tourist HomeThis home’s first owner was John R. Cornwell, an African American business man and civic leader who owned a successful b...
- 40-143Heidt-Russell HouseThis house, with Greek Revival and Italianate architectural influences, was built about 1879 by William J. Heidt, builde...
- 40-175I. DeQuincy Newman HouseIsaiah DeQuincey Newman (1911-1985), Methodist minister, civil rights leader, and state senator, lived here from 1960 un...
- 40-142James M. Hinton HouseThis is the site of the home of James Miles Hinton (1891-1970), businessman, civil rights pioneer, and minister. Hinton ...
- 40-141Matthew J. Perry HouseMatthew J. Perry, Jr. (b. 1921), lawyer, civil rights pioneer, and jurist, lived in a house on this site as a youth; the...
- 40-148Modjeska Simkins HouseThis house was for sixty years the home of Modjeska Monteith Simkins (1899-1992), social reformer and civil rights activ...
- 40-204Palmetto Education AssociationFounded in 1900 as the S.C. State Teachers Association, and known from 1918-1953 as the Palmetto State Teachers Associat...
- 40-165South Carolina Memorial GardenThis garden was established in 1944 by the Garden Club of South Carolina. It was the first memorial garden in the U.S. c...
- 40-216South Carolina State LibraryAuthorized by the S.C. General Assembly in 1965 and constructed 1967-1969, this building was dedicated as the South Caro...
- 40-144The Lighthouse & InformerThe Lighthouse & Informer, long the leading black newspaper in S.C., was a weekly published here from 1941 to 1954 by jo...
- 40-192Tree of Life SynagogueIn 1896 members of 18 Jewish families assembled to worship at the Independent Fire Company’s station overlooking Sidney ...
- 40-145Waverly Five and DimeThe Waverly Five & Dime, located here until about 1957, was managed 1945-48 by George A. Elmore (1905-1959), the African...
Saluda County
Spartanburg County
- 42-40Bethune High SchoolBethune High School opened in 1953. It was housed in a brick facility built at this site and funded by the S.C. equaliza...
- 42-26Camp CroftCamp Croft, constructed in 1940-41, was named for Greenville native Maj. Gen. Edward Croft (1875-1938). The pillars from...
- 42-41First Baptist ChurchThis church’s oldest record is from September 16, 1787. Members first worshipped at a site 1½ mi. NW, deeded to them by ...
- 42-29National Assn. of Soil Conservation DistrictsThe first office of the National Association of Soil Conservation Districts (NASCD) was located in the Montgomery Buildi...
- 42-01Reidville Public SchoolBuilt in 1948 on the site of Reidville Female College (operated 1871 to 1901), one of two private schools founded in 185...
Sumter County
- 43-4855th Fighter SquadronEstablished as the 55th Aero Construction Squadron in 1917, the 55th was assigned to Shaw AFB from 1946-1951 and returne...
- 43-5179th Fighter SquadronEstablished as the 77th Aero Squadron on 20 Feb 1918, the unit trained WWI aviators. It was assigned to Shaw AFB from 19...
- 43-5279th Fighter SquadronEstablished as the 79th Aero Squadron on 22 Feb 1918. The unit trained WWI aviators. It was assigned to Shaw AFB from 19...
- 43-59B.T. Williams HouseThis brick-veneered hosue was the home of Dr. Booker Taliaferro Williams, dentist and civil rights activist. Born 1900 i...
- 43-58Community HospitalCommunity Hospital opened at this site in 1949. The 40-room brick facility was built for African Amerian residents of Su...
- 43-49Randall v. Sumter School DistrictThough the U.S. Supreme Court had declared racially segregated school unconstitutional in the landmark decision Brown v....
- 43-53WWII Prisoner of War CampFrom 1942 to 1945 more than 400,000 Axis-power prisoners of war were shipped to the United States from Europe and North ...
Union County
Williamsburg County
- 45-22"Let Us March on Ballot Boxes"On May 8, 1966, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. visited Kingstree. King’s speech, which came after passage of the Voting Righ...
- 45-25Benevolent Societies HospitalIn March 1948, eight local Black benevolent societies founded a hospital for African Americans at this site. It was hous...
- 45-23Chubby Checker HomeOn Oct. 3, 1941, Ernest Evans, later known by his stage name, “Chubby Checker,” was born to Raymond and Eartle (Scott) E...
York County
- 46-84Carver TheaterThe Carver Theater opened at this site in 1947. It was housed in a metal Quonset hut with a stuccoed brick, stepped para...
- 46-62Celanese Celriver PlantThis plant, once called “a miracle of modern technology,” produced synthetic yarn and fibers for clothing, synthetic fla...
- 46-78Clover Springs FarmIn 1942, local textile entrepreneur Cary C. Boshamer (1895-1973) opened Clover Springs Farm at this site. Previously cot...
- 46-89Fort Mill High SchoolFor over thirty years this was the site of Fort Mill High School. The school moved to this location in 1952-53 and was h...
- 46-37McCrory's Civil Rights Sit-InsThis building, built in 1901, was occupied by McCrory’s Five & Dime from 1937 to 1997. On February 12, 1960, black stude...
- 46-86St. Mary Catholic ChurchSt. Mary Catholic Church formed in 1945. It was organized by Fr. Edward Wahl, a white Oratorian who sought to minister t...