List of African American historic places in South Carolina

__NOTOC__This list of African American Historic Places in South Carolina is was originally based on a report by the South Carolina Department of Archives & History. This report is based on the work of student interns from South Carolina State University. [http://www.state.sc.us/scdah/afamer/aframsites.pdf]

Some of these sites are on the National Register of Historic Places ("NR") as independent sites or as part of larger historic district. Several of the sites are National Historic Landmarks ("NRL"). Others have South Carolina historical markers ("HM"). The citation on historical markers is given in the reference. The location listed is the nearest community to the site. More precise locations are given in the reference.

=Abbeville County=

* Abbeville
** President's House of Harbison College ("NR")
** McGowan-Barksdale Servant Houses ("NR")
** St. James A.M.E. Church ("NR")
** Second Presbyterian Church ("NR")

=Aiken County=

* Aiken
** Schofield School ("HM")
* Beech Island
** Silver Bluff Baptist Church ("HM")
* Clearwater
** Storm Branch Baptist Church ("HM")
* Langley
** Jacksonville School/Jacksonville Lodge ("HM")

=Anderson County=

* Pendleton
** African American School Site ("HM")
** Faith Cabin Library ("NR")

=Bamberg County=

* Denmark
** Voorhees College Historic District ("NR")
** Voorhees College ("HM")

=Barnwell County=

* Barnewell
**Bethlehem Baptist Church ("NR/HM")
* Blackville
** Macedonia Baptist Church ("HM")

=Beaufort County=

* Beaufort
** Berean Presbyterian Church ("NR")
** Detreville House ("NR")
** First African Baptist Church ("NR")
** Grand Army of the Republic Hall ("NR")
** Mather School ("HM")
** Robert Smalls House ("NR/NRL")
** Sons of Beaufort Lodge No. 36 ("NR")
** Tabernacle Baptist Church ("NR")
* Bluffton
** Michael C. Riley Schools ("HM")
* Daufuskie Island
** Daufuskie Island Historic District ("NR")
* Hilton Head
** Fish Hall Plantation ("HM")
** Mitchelville Archeological Site ("NR")
** Mitchelville Site ("HM")
* Port Royal
** Camp Saxton ("NR")
** Emancipation Day ("HM")
* St. Helena Island
** Dr. York Bailey House ("NR")
** Coffin Point Plantation ("NR")
** Eddings Point Community Praise House ("NR")
** Frogmore Plantation Complex ("NR")
** The Green (St. Helena Island) ("NR")
** Knights of Wise Men Lodge Hall ("NR")
** Mary Jenkins Community Praise House ("NR")
** The Oaks ("NR")
** Penn Center Historic District ("NR/NRL")
** Penn School ("HM")
** Seaside Plantation ("NR")
** Robert Simmons House ("NR")
* Sheldon
** Sheldon Union Academy ("HM")

=Berkeley County=

* Goose Creek
** Casey (Caice) ("HM")
** Cooper River Historic District ("NR")
** Dixie Training School ("HM")

=Calhoun County=

* Fort Motte
** Mount Pleasant Baptist Church ("HM")

=Charleston County=

* Adams Run
** King Cemetery, Charleston County, South Carolina ("NR")
* Charleston
** Aiken-Rhett House Slave Quarters ("NR")
** Avery Institute ("NR")
** Centenary United Methodist Church ("NR")
** Central Baptist Church ("NR")
** Denmark Vesey House ("NR/NRL")
** Emanuel A.M.E. Church ("NR")
** Harleston-Boags Funeral Home ("NR")
** Richard Holloway Houses ("NR")
** Holy Trinity Reformed Episcopal Church ("NR")
** Maryville ("HM")
** Mt. Zion A.M.E. Church ("NR")
** Old Bethel United Methodist Church ("NR")
** Old Marine Hospital/Jenkins Orphanage ("NR")
** Old Plymouth Congregational Church ("NR")
** Old Slave Mart ("NR")
** The Parsonage/Miss Izard’s School ("HM")
** Saint Mark's Episcopal Church ("NR")
** John Schnierle Jr./Alonzo J. Ransier House ("NR")
* Edisto Island
** Edisto Island Baptist Church ("NR")
** Hutchinson House ("NR")
** Point of Pines Plantation ("NR")
** Seaside School ("NR")
* Folly Beach
** Folly North Site ("NR")
* James Island
** McLeod Plantation ("NR")
* John's Island
** Moving Star Hall ("NR")
* McClellanville
** Bethel A.M.E. Church ("NR")
* Mount Pleasant
** Boone Hall Plantation ("NR")
** Friendship A.M.E. Church ("HM")
** Laing School ("HM")
** Mount Pleasant Presbyterian Church ("HM")
** Sweetgrass Baskets ("HM")
* North Charleston
** Liberty Hill ("HM")
* Rantowles
** Stono River Slave Rebellion Site ("NR/NRL")
** Stono Rebellion (1739) ("HM")

=Chester County=

* Chester
** Brainerd Institute ("HM")
** Kumler Hall, Brainerd Institute ("NR")
** Metropolitan A.M.E. Zion Church ("NR")

=Chesterfield County=

* Cheraw
** Coulter Memorial Academy Site ("HM")
** Dizzy Gillespie Birthplace ("HM")
** Dizzy Gillespie Childhood Home ("HM")
** Pee Dee Union Baptist Church ("HM")
* Chesterfield
** Mount Tabor United Methodist Church ("NR")

=Clarendon County=

* Manning
** Pleasant Grove School ("HM")
** Trinity A.M.E. Church ("HM")
* St. Paul
** Liberty Hill Church ("HM")
* Summerton
** Summerton High School ("NR")
** Mt. Zion A.M.E. Church ("HM")
** Taw Caw Church ("HM")

Colleton County, South Carolina

* Walterboro
** Church of Attonement ("NR")
** St. Peter's A.M.E. Church ("NR")

=Darlington County=

* Darlington
** Darlington Memorial Cemetery ("NR/HM")
** Edmund H. Deas House ("NR")
** Edmund H. Deas ("HM")
** Henry “Dad” Brown ("HM")
** Lawrence Reese (1864-1915) ("HM")
** Macedonia Church ("HM")
** St. James Church ("HM")
** West Broad Street Historic District ("NR")
* Hartsville
** Butler School ("HM")
* Society Hill
** Zachariah W. Wines ("HM")
** Lawrence Faulkner ("HM")

=Dillon County=

* Bingham
** Selkirk Farm ("NR")

=Dorchester County=

* Rural Dorchester County
** Middleton Place ("NR"/"NRL")
* Harleyville
** St. Paul Camp Ground ("NR")
* Summerville
** Alston Graded School ("HM")

=Edgefield County=

* Trenton
** Bettis Academy and Junior College ("NR")
** Bettis Academy ("HM")
** Mt. Canaan Baptist Church ("HM")

=Fairfield County=

* Ridgeway
** Camp Welfare ("NR/HM")
** Fairfield Institute ("HM")
** St. Paul Baptist Church ("HM")

=Florence County=

* Effington
** The Assassination of Rep. Alfred Rush ("HM")
* Florence
** William H. Johnson Birthplace ("HM")
** Roseville Plantation Slave and Freedman’s Cemetery ("HM")
* Lake City
** Greater St. James A.M.E. Church ("HM")
* Mars Bluff
** Gregg-Wallace Farm Tenant House ("NR")
** Hewn-Timber Cabins ("HM")
** Jamestown ("HM")
** Mt. Zion Methodist Church ("HM")
** Mt. Zion Rosenwald School ("NR/HM")
** Slave Houses, Gregg Plantation ("NR")

=Georgetown County=

* Rural Georgetown County
** Arundel Plantation Slave House ("NR")
** Keithfield Plantation ("NR")
** Mansfield Plantation Slave Street ("NR")
** Pee Dee River Rice Planters Historic District ("NR")
* Georgetown
** Jonathan A. Baxter House ("NR")
** Bethel A.M.E. Church ("NR")
** Bethesda Baptist Church ("HM")
** James A. Bowley House ("NR")
** Fannie Carolina House ("NR")
** Howard School ("HM")
** Mt. Olive Baptist Church ("HM")
** Joseph H. Rainey House ("NR"/"NHL"/"HM")
** Hobcaw Barony ("NR")
* Murrells Inlet
** Richmond Hill Plantation Archaeological Sites ("NR")
* Pawley's Island
** Cedar Grove Plantation Chapel ("NR")

=Greenville County=

* Greenville
** John Wesley Methodist Episcopal Church ("NR")
** Matoon Presbyterian Church ("NR")
** Richland Cemetery ("NR")
** Working Benevolent Temple and Professional Building ("NR")
** Working Benevolent Society Hospital ("HM")

=Greenwood County=

* Greenwood
** Mt. Pisgah A.M.E. Church ("NR")
* Hodges
** Good Hope Baptist Church ("HM")
* Kirksey
** Trapp and Chandler Pottery Site ("NR")
* Mays Crossroads
** Dr. Benjamin E. Mays ("HM")

=Hampton County=

* Hampton
** Hampton Colored School ("NR")

=Horry County=

* Atlantic Beach
** Atlantic Beach ("HM")
* Burgess
** St. James Rosenwald School ("HM")
* Conway
** True Vine Missionary Baptist Church ("HM")
* Myrtle Beach
** Myrtle Beach Colored School ("HM")

=Jasper County=

* Ridgeland
** Honey Hill/Boyd’s Neck Battlefield ("NR")
* Tillman
** St. Matthew Baptist Church ("HM")

=Kershaw County=

* Camden
** Bonds Conway House ("NR")
** E.H. Dibble Store/Eugene H. Dibble ("HM")
** Mather Academy ("HM")
** Thomas English House ("NR")

=Lancaster County=

* Cauthen Crossroads
** Mt. Carmel A.M.E. Zion Church and Campground ("NR")
** Mt. Carmel Campground ("HM")
* Kershaw
** Clinton A.M.E. Zion Church ("NR")
** Unity Baptist Church ("NR")
* Lancaster
** Clinton Memorial Cemetery ("HM")
** Lancaster Normal and Industrial Institute ("HM")

=Laurens County=

* Laurens
** Bethel A.M.E. Church ("NR")
** Charles Duckett House ("NR")
** Rich Hill ("HM")
** Saint Paul First Baptist Church ("NR")

=Lee County=

* Bishopville
** Dennis High School ("NR")

=Lexington County=

* West Columbia
** Saluda Factory Historic District ("NR")
** Saluda Factory ("HM")

=Marion County=

* Marion
** Taylor’s Barber Shop ("NR")
* Mullins
** Mt. Olive Baptist Church ("NR/HM")

=Marlboro County=

* Bennettsville
** St. Michael’s Methodist Church ("NR")

=Newberry County=

* Newberry
** Miller Chapel A.M.E. Church ("HM")
* Prosperity
** Howard Junior High School ("NR")
* Pomaria
** Hope Rosenwald School ("NR") - Not on SCDAH list. It was a Rosenwald School.

=Oconee County=

* Seneca
** Oconee County Training School ("HM")
** Seneca Institute ("HM")

=Orangeburg County=

* Elloree, South Carolina
** Shiloh A.M.E. Church ("HM")
* Orangeburg
** All Star Bowling Lanes ("NR")
** Claflin College Historic District ("NR")
** Claflin College ("HM")
** Dukes Gymnasium ("NR")
** East Russell Street Area Historic District ("NR")
** Fisher’s Rexall Drugs ("NR")
** Major John Hammond Fordham House ("NR")
** Hodge Hall ("NR")
** Law Offices of Coblyn and Townsend ("NR")
** Lowman Hall ("NR")
** Mt. Pisgah Baptist Church ("NR")
** Orangeburg City Cemetery ("NR")
** The Orangeburg Massacre ("HM")
** South Carolina State College Historic District ("NR")
** South Carolina State University ("HM")
** Tingley Memorial Hall, Claflin College ("NR")
** Treadwell Street Historic District ("NR")
** Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church ("NR/HM")

=Pickens County=

* Clemson
** Integration with Dignity ("HM")
* Liberty
** Liberty Colored High School ("NR")

=Richland County=

* Columbia
** Allen University Historic District ("NR")
** Alston House ("NR")
** Benedict College Historic District ("NR")
** Bethel A.M.E. Church ("NR")
** Big Apple ("NR")
** Calvary Baptist Church, 1865-1945 ("HM")
** Carver Theatre ("NR")
** Chapelle Administration Building ("NR/NHL")
** Columbia Township Auditorium ("NR")
** Early Howard School Site ("HM")
** Fair-Rutherford and Rutherford Houses ("NR")
** Harden Street Substation ("NR")
** Howard School Site ("HM")
** Kress Building ("NR")
** Ladson Presbyterian Church ("HM")
** Mann-Simons Cottage ("NR")
** North Carolina Mutual Building ("NR")
** Randolph Cemetery ("NR/HM")
** St. Paul Church ("HM")
** Sidney Park C.M.E. Church ("NR")
** Modjeska Monteith Simkins House ("NR")
** South Carolina Statehouse ("NR")
** Waverly Historic District ("NR")
** A.P. Williams Funeral Home ("NR")
* Eastover
** Goodwill Plantation ("NR")
** Siloam School ("NR")
** St. Phillip A.M.E. Church ("HM")
** St. Phillip School ("NR")
** St. Thomas Protestant Episcopal Church ("NR")
* Gadsden
** Magnolia, Slave House ("NR")
* Hopkins
** Barber House ("NR")

=Saluda County=

* Saluda
** Faith Cabin Library Site ("HM")

=Spartanburg County=

* Spartanburg
** 15th N.Y. Infantry ("HM")
** Old City Cemetery ("HM")

=Sumter County=

* Mayesville
** Birthplace of Mary McLeod Bethune ("HM")
** Goodwill Parochial School ("NR")
* Stateburg
** Ellison House ("NR")
* Sumter
** Kendall Institute ("HM")
** Enon Baptist Church ("HM")
** St. Paul African Methodist Episcopal Church ("HM")

=Union County=

* Union
** Corinth Baptist Church ("NR")
** Sims High School ("HM")
** Union Community Hospital ("NR/HM")

=Williamsburg County=

* Bloomingvale
** Mt. Zion A.M.E. Church ("HM")
* Greeleyville
** McCollum-Murray House ("NR")
* Kingstree
** Stephen A. Swails House ("HM")

=York County=

* Newport
** William Hill ("HM")
* Rock Hill
** Afro-American Insurance Company Building ("NR")
** Clinton Junior College ("HM")
** Emmett Scott School ("HM")
** Hermon Presbyterian Church ("NR")
** McCrory’s Civil Rights Sit Ins ("HM")

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