Important Institutions in South Carolina
Courtesy of the South Caroliniana Library.
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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...
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Converse College, Spartanburg, in 1909. Converse owes its name and its existence to D.E. Converse, a textile manufacturer from Massachusetts who came to Spartanburg in 1856. Believing that "the well...
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The Citadel in 1904. Its name is derived from the institution's origin in a fortress built to protect Charleston from slave uprisings. In the 1820s, after the Denmark Vesey plot of 1822...
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Citadel Cadets show one of the dormitory rooms in the original campus, with mattresses neatly stacked in storage shelves, 1898-1902. The Citadel moved from its downtown campus to a new 200-acre campus...
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Claflin University, an engraving from Colyer Meriwether's "History of Higher Education in South Carolina," published in 1889. The Freedman's Aid Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church founded...
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The Main Building of Claflin College, photographed by Francis Benjamin Johnston in 1899. Courtesy of the Library of Congress.
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Clemson University was founded in 1889 after Thomas Green Clemson, the son-in-law of John C. Calhoun, gave $80,000 and 814 acres of his estate for the creation of an agricultural college. The state...
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Clemson University, an interior view of the Library taken by the WPA in the 1930s. Courtesy of the South Caroliniana Library.
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An aerial view of Clemson stadium, around 1960. Alumni, parents, and supporters of Clemson's football team come from all over the state for home games, as illustrated by the parking lots surrounding...
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Erskine College, located in Due West in Abbeville County, was founded by the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church in 1839, and named in honor of the Scottish founder of the denomination, Ebenezer...