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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJJQ_st-stephen-colored-school-st-stephen-high-school_St-Stephen-SC.html
(Marker Front)St. Stephen Colored School St. Stephen Colored School, the first public African American school in St. Stephen, was built here in 1924-25. A three-room frame building, it was one of almost 500 schools in S.C. funded in part by the J…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJJM_l-mendel-rivers-house_St-Stephen-SC.html
(Marker Front) Lucius Mendel Rivers (1905-1970), state representative 1933-36 and U.S. Representative 1940-70, was born in nearby Gumville and grew up on the family farm on Bonneau Road (now Mendel Rivers Avenue). Rivers attended the College of Ch…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJJL_st-stephens-episcopal-church_St-Stephen-SC.html
(Marker Front)St. Stephen's, built 1767-69, is a fine example of the rural churches built in the S.C. lowcountry before the Revolution. "The Church is one of the handsomest Country Churches in So. Ca. and would be no mean ornament in Charleston," …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJEK_wassamassaw_Summerville-SC.html
[Front] Wassamassaw, with several variant spellings during the colonial era, is a Native American word thought to mean "connecting water." It first referred to the large cypress swamp here, but eventually referred to the community that grew up nea…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJEI_dixie-training-school-berkeley-training-high-school_Moncks-Corner-SC.html
[Front] Berkeley Training High School, first called Dixie Training School, stood here from 1920 until the 1980s. The first public school for blacks in Moncks Corner was founded in 1880. It held classes in local churches until its first school was …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJEH_lewisfield-plantation_Moncks-Corner-SC.html
This land, part of Fairlawn Barony and known as Little Landing, was bought in 1767 by Sedgwick Lewis. His daughter Sarah married Keating Simons. They acquired the land in 1774 and are presumed to have built the present plantation house. Tradition …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJEF_mulberry-plantation_Moncks-Corner-SC.html
Originally granted to Sir Peter Colleton in 1679. Acquired in 1712 by Thomas Broughton, who erected the present mansion, said to be modeled after Seaton Hall in England, in 1714. Thomas Broughton was speaker of the Commons House of Assembly from 1…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJ0A_broom-hall-plantation_Goose-Creek-SC.html
(Front text) Broom Hall Plantation, later called Bloom Hall and still later Bloomfield, was first granted to Edward Middleton in 1678. By 1710 this property passed to Benjamin Gibbes (d. 1722), who named it for Broom House, his ancestral home in E…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMIYX_crowfield-plantation_Goose-Creek-SC.html
(Front text) Crowfield Plantation, on the headwaters of Goose Creek, was originally granted to John Berringer in 1701. John Gibbes (1696-1764), a member of the Royal Assembly, sold it in 1721 to Arthur Middleton (1681-1737), also a member of the R…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMIOS_howe-hall-plantation-howe-hall-elementary-school_Goose-Creek-SC.html
(Front text) Howe Hall PlantationHowe Hall Plantation was established here by Robert Howe about 1683 and passed to his son Job Howe (d. 1706), Speaker of the Commons House of Assembly 1700-05. Later owned by such prominent lowcountry families as t…