S.C. History

South Carolina's historical events, people and places. Content has been curated to meet South Carolina Social Studies Standards.
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Mary McLeod Bethune (1875-1955) | Road Trip
Mary McLeod Bethune (1875-1955) | Road Trip

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Grades: 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

In 1920, Mayesville native Mary McLeod Bethune founded Bethune-Cookman College in Daytona, Florida. In 1935, Bethune was named as head of the Division of Negro Affairs of the National Youth...
Beaufort County - Dafauskie Island
Beaufort County - Dafauskie Island

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Grades: 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

By the 1940s and 1950s, outside competition had caused many to leave Dafauskie island and search for jobs elsewhere, leaving the population in 1980 at less than seventy-five people. Because of its...
Beaufort County - Michael C. Riley School
Beaufort County - Michael C. Riley School

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Grades: 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

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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Grades: 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

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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Grades: 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

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...
Colleton County - Tuskegee Training Ground
Colleton County - Tuskegee Training Ground

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Grades: 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

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...
Berkeley County - Dixie Training School
Berkeley County - Dixie Training School

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Grades: 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

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...
Georgetown County - Howard School
Georgetown County - Howard School

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Grades: 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

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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Grades: 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

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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Grades: 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

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...