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Ney School

About 1843 Robert Rogers (1808-1882), a planter at "Blooming Grove" in the Back Swamp community of what was then Darlington District, built a plantation schoolhouse and hired Peter Stuart Ney (d. 1846) to teach his children. The original building, moved here in 1870, was later the library for Back Swamp School (1921-1950). In 1970 it was moved to the home of Evander McIver Ervin.

Back Swamp School

This school, the second on the site, was built in 1921 by Back Swamp residents. An elementary school sometimes known as St. Winifred's, it boasted as many as two teachers and sixty students in some years. When it closed in 1950 its students were transferred to Florence schools; it has since served as the Back Swamp Community Center.

21-13Florence County

Where it stands. E. Pocket Rd. (S.C. Sec. Rd. 21-26), just W of its junction with Rogers Ct., Back Swamp community, Florence vicinity, Florence vicinity

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  1. 21-11Roseville Plantation0.9 miles
  2. 21-18Roseville Plantation Slave and Freedman's Cemetery1.0 miles
  3. 16-40Williamson's Bridge3.9 miles
  4. 16-88Pleasant Grove Church4.5 miles
  5. 21-01Moses S. Haynsworth4.5 miles
  6. 16-50Andrew Hunter4.6 miles