Voorhees College

Voorhees College (HMCX9)

Location: Denmark, SC 29042 Bamberg County
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Country: United States of America
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N 33° 18.53', W 81° 7.858'

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[Front Text]
Voorhees College, founded by Elizabeth Evelyn Wrightin 1897 as the Denmark Industrial School, was aneffort to emphasize a vocational curriculum forrural African American students on the model ofthe Tuskegee Institute. The school, with funding from philanthropist Ralph Voorhees, was renamed Voorhees Industrial School for Colored Youth in 1904,Voorhees Normal and Industrial in 1916, and Voorhees School and Junior College in 1947.

[Reverse Text]
Voorhees, supported by the Episcopal Church since1924, changed its mission during the first half ofthe twentieth century and in 1962 became VoorheesCollege. In 1967 it became a senior liberal artscollege. The historic portion of the campus waslisted in the National Register of Historic Placesin 1982 as Voorhees College Historic District.
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HM NumberHMCX9
Series This marker is part of the National Historic Landmarks series
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Marker Number5-6
Year Placed1998
Placed ByVoorhees College
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Date Added Monday, October 13th, 2014 at 5:10pm PDT -07:00
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Locationbig map
UTM (WGS84 Datum)17S E 487808 N 3685532
Decimal Degrees33.30883333, -81.13096667
Degrees and Decimal MinutesN 33° 18.53', W 81° 7.858'
Degrees, Minutes and Seconds33° 18' 31.80" N, 81° 7' 51.48" W
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Area Code(s)803
Closest Postal AddressAt or near 4521-4533 State Rd S-5-12, Denmark SC 29042, US
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