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In 1890, the Presbyterian Synod of South Carolina purchased the Hampton-Preston Mansion on Blanding Street from the Ursuline Sisters who had used it as a convent since the end of the war, and installed there a Presbyterian College for Women, later to be called Chicora College.
Courtesy of the South Caroliniana Library.