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This list of African American Historic Places in South Carolina was originally based on a report by the South Carolina Department of Archives & History through its South Carolina African American Heritage Commission. The first edition was originally based on the work of student interns from South Carolina State University or the 2021 update.
Some of these sites are on the National Register of Historic Places (NR) as independent sites or as a contributing property (CP) of a 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.
These listings illustrate some of the history and contributions of African Americans in South Carolina.
+ Contents: Counties in South Carolina with African American Historic Places Abbeville - Aiken - Allendale Anderson - Bamberg - Barnwell - Beaufort - Berkeley - Calhoun - Charleston - Cherokee - Chester - Chesterfield - Clarendon - Colleton - Darlington - Dillon - Dorchester - Edgefield - Fairfield - Florence - Georgetown - Greenville - Greenwood - Hampton - Horry - Jasper - Kershaw - Lancaster - Laurens - Lee - Lexington - Marion - Marlboro - Newberry - Oconee - Orangeburg - Pickens - Richland - Saluda - Spartanburg - Sumter - Union - Williamsburg - York
Abbeville County Abbeville President's House of Harbison College (NR) McGowan-Barksdale Servant Houses (CP) Mulberry A.M.E. Church (HM) St. James A.M.E. Church (CP) Second Presbyterian Church (CP)
Aiken County Aiken Aiken Colored Cemetery (NR) Aiken Colored Cemetery/Pine Lawn Memorial Gardens (HM) Aiken Graded School (HM) Immanuel School (NR) Schofield School (HM) Bath Jefferson High School/Rev. Austin Jefferson, Sr. (HM) Providence Baptist Church (HM) Beech Island Silver Bluff Baptist Church (HM) Clearwater Storm Branch Baptist Church (HM) Langley Jacksonville School/Jacksonville Lodge (HM) North Augusta, South Carolina Carrsville (HM) The Hamburg Massacre (HM)
Allendale County Allendale Happy Home Baptist Church (HM)
Anderson County Pendleton African American School Site (HM) Faith Cabin Library at Anderson County Training School (NR) “The Hundreds” (HM)
Bamberg County Denmark Denmark Industrial School HM Voorhees College Historic District (NR) Voorhees University (HM)
Barnwell County Barnewell Bethlehem Baptist Church (HM/NR) Blackville Macedonia Baptist Church (HM)
Beaufort County
Beaufort Baptist Church of Beaufort (HM) Beaufort National Cemetery (NR) Berean Church/J.I. Washington Branch Library (HM) Berean Presbyterian Church (CP) Detreville House (CP) First African Baptist Church (CP) Grand Army of the Republic Hall (HM/CP) Mather School (HM) Robert Smalls House (NR/NRL) Sons of Beaufort Lodge No. 36 (CP) Tabernacle Baptist Church (CP) Tabernacle Baptist Church /Robert Smalls (HM) Wesley Methodist Church (HM) Bluffton Cyrus Garvin House NR Cyrus Garvin/Cyrus Garvin House HM Michael C. Riley Schools (HM) Daufuskie Island Daufuskie Island (HM) Daufuskie Island Historic District (NR) Mary Field School (HM) Garden City vicinity Combahee River Raid/Freedom Along the Combahee (HM) Hilton Head Cherry Hill School (NR) Fish Hall/Thomas Fenwick Drayton (HM) Fort Howell (HM/NR) Mitchelville (Fish Haul) Archaeological Site (NR) Mitchelville Site (HM) Queen Chapel A.M.E. Church (HM) St. James Baptist Church (HM) Stoney-Baynard Plantation (NR) Port Royal Camp Saxton (HM) Emancipation Day/Camp Saxton Site (HM) St. Helena Island Emanuel Alston House (NR) Dr. York Bailey House (NR) Coffin Point Plantation (NR) Eddings Point Community Praise House (NR) Frogmore Plantation Complex (NR) Great Sea Island Storm (HR) The Green (NR) Knights of Wise Men Lodge (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) The Great Sea Island Storm (HM) William Simmons House (HM) Sheldon Sheldon Union Academy/Sheldon School (HM)
Berkeley County Cainhoy Cainhoy Historic District (NR) Cordesville, South Carolina Cordesville Rosenwald School (HM) Goose Creek Casey (Caice) (HM) Howe Hall Plantation (HM) Hanahan Bowen's Corner (HM) Moncks Corner Berkeley Training High School (HM) Cherry Hill Classroom (HM) Cooper River Historic District (NR) Dixie Training School/Berkeley Training High School (HM) St. Stephen St. Stephen's Colored School (HM)
Calhoun County Fort Motte Fort Motte Rosenwald School Site (HM) Lang Syne Cemetery (HM) Mount Pleasant Baptist Church (HM) Elloree vicinity Good Hope Picnic (HM) St. Matthews, South Carolina Bethel A.M.E. Church and School (HM) John Ford High School (HM) Mt. Carmel Baptist Church (HM) Oakland Cemetery (HM)) St. John Good Samaritan Lodge Hall and Cemetery (HM) St. Matthews C.T.S. Site (HM) True Blue Cemetery (HM) West End Public Library (HM)
Charleston County
Adams Run King Cemetery (NR) Charleston Aiken-Rhett House Slave Quarters (CP) Ashley River Historic District (NR) Avery Institute (CP) Burke High School (HM) Calvary Episcopal Church (HM) Centenary United Methodist Church (CP) Central Baptist Church (CP) Charleston Cemeteries Historic District (NR) Cigar Factory/“We Shall Overcome” (HM) Septima Clark Birthplace (HM) Constitutional Convention of 1868 (HM) John L. Dart Library (HM) Denmark Vesey House (NR/NRL) Dianna Brown Antique Shop (NR) Drayton Hall (NR/NRL) Emanuel A.M.E. Church (NR) Faber House (Hametic Hotel) (NR) First Memorial Day (HM) Harleston-Boags Funeral Home (CP) Harmon Field/Cannon Street All-Stars (HM) Richard Holloway Houses (CP) Holy Trinity Reformed Episcopal Church (CP) Jackson Street Freedman’s Cottages (CP) Kress Building/Civil Rights Sit-Ins (HM) Lincoln Theatre/Little Jerusalem (HM) Magnolia Place and Gardens (NR) Mt. Zion A.M.E. Church (NR) Old Bethel United Methodist Church (HM/NR) Old Plymouth Congregational Church (CP) Mt. Zion A.M.E. Church (CP) Old Bethel United Methodist Church (NR) Old Marine Hospital/Jenkins Orphanage (NR) Saint Mark's Episcopal Church (CP) Old Plymouth Congregational Church (CP) Old Slave Mart (NR) The Parsonage/Miss Izard's School (HM) John Schnierle Jr./Alonzo J. Ransier House (CP) Plymouth Church/Plymouth Parsonage (HM) Saint Mark's Episcopal Church (CP) The Seizure of the Planter (HM) James Simons Elementary School/Desegregation of Charleston Schools (HM) Slave Auctions (HM) U.S. Courthouse and Post Office/Briggs v. Elliott (HM) Weston-Grimké Homesite (HM) Jonathan Jasper Wright Law Office (HM) Edisto Island Edisto Island Baptist Church (NR) Hutchinson House (NR) Point of Pines Plantation (NR) Seaside School (NR) Folly Beach Camp of Wild’s “African Brigade,” 1863-1864 (HM) Folly North Site (NR) James Island McLeod Plantation (NR) W. Gresham Meggett High and Elementary School (HM/NR) Simeon Pinckney Homestead (HM) Seashore Farmers' Lodge No. 767 (NR) John's Island Moving Star Hall (NR) The Progressive Club (NR) Lincolnville, South Carolina Bible Sojourn Society Cemetery (HM) Lincolnville (HM) Lincolnville School/Lincolnville Elementary School (HM) Maryville Maryville (HM) 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 Inland Rice Fields, ca 1701-1865 (HM) Jenkins Orphanage (HM) Liberty Hill (HM) Union Heights/Howard Heights (HM) Rantowles Stono River Slave Rebellion Site (NR/NRL) Stono Rebellion (1739) (HM) Sol Legare Island Mosquito Beach (HM) Mosquito Beach Historic District (NR) Summerville, South Carolina Ashley River Historic District (NR)
Cherokee County Gaffney Dunton Chapel Methodist Church (HM) Granard Graded and High School (HM) Pacolet vicinity Mulberry Chapel Methodist Church (HM/NR)
Chester County Chester Black Rock Baptist Church/Black Rock School (HM) Brainerd Institute (HM) Kumler Hall (NR) Metropolitan A.M.E. Zion Church (CP) Chester, South Carolina|Chester vicinity St. Paul Baptist Church at Halsellville/Carter Colored School (HM)
Chesterfield County Cheraw Chesterfield Colored School (HM) Coulter Memorial Academy Site (HM) Dizzy Gillespie Birthplace (HM) Long High School Site (HM) Mount Tabor United Methodist Church (HM/CP) Robert Smalls School (HM/NR) Pee Dee Union Baptist Church (HM) Chesterfield Mount Tabor United Methodist Church (CP)
Clarendon County Manning Ebenezer Baptist Church (HM) Manning Training School (HM) Pearson Family Homesite/Pearson v. Clarendon Co. (HM) Pleasant Grove School (HM) Trinity A.M.E. Church (HM) St. Paul Liberty Hill Church/Pioneers in Desegregation (HM) Summerton Briggs Family House/Briggs v. Elliott (HM) Scott’s Branch School/Briggs v. Elliott (HM) St. Mark A.M.E. (HM) Summerton High School (NR) Mt. Zion A.M.E. Church (HM) Taw Caw Church (HM)
Colleton County, South Carolina Walterboro Church of Attonement (CP) Colleton Training School/Gruber Street USO Training the Tuskegee Airmen HM St. James the Greater Catholic Mission (NR) St. Peter's A.M.E. Church (HM/CP) Training the Tuskegee Airmen (HM)
Darlington County Darlington and vicinity Darlington Memorial Cemetery (HM/NR) Edmund H. Deas House (NR) Edmund H. Deas (HM) Henry "Dad" Brown (HM) Lawrence Reese (1864–1915) (HM) Macedonia Church (HM) Round O (HM) Round O Baptist Church (HM) St. James Church (HM) South Carolina Western Railway Station (NR) St. James Church (HM) West Broad Street Historic District (NR) Dovesville Mt. Zion Baptist Church (HM) Hartsville and vicinity Butler School (HM) Hartsville Colored Cemetery (HM) Hartsville Graded School/Mt. Pisgah Nursery School (HM) Hough’s Hotel (HM) Jerusalem Baptist Church (HM) New Hopewell Baptist Church (HM) Primus Park (HM) Lamar John Wesley Methodist Church (HM) Society Hill Lawrence Faulkner (HM) Mt. Rona Missionary Baptist Church (HM) Rosenwald Consolidated School/Rosenwald High School (HM) St. Joseph’s Catholic Church (HM) Zachariah W. Wines (HM)
Dillon County Bingham Selkirk Farm (NR) Latta Pine Hill A.M.E. Church/Pine Hill Rosenwald School (HM)
Dorchester County Harleyville vicinity St. Paul Camp Ground (HM/NR) St. George and vicinity St. George Rosenwald School (NR) Shady Grove Camp Ground (HM) Summerville and vicinity Alston Graded School/Alston High School (HM) Middleton Place (NR/NRL)
Edgefield County Edgefield ** Macedonia Baptist Church/Edgefield Academy (HM) Johnston Mt. Pleasant Baptist Church (HM) Trenton and vicinity Bettis Academy and Junior College (NR) Bettis Academy (HM) Mt. Canaan Baptist Church (HM)
Fairfield County Ridgeway Camp Welfare (HM/NR) Fairfield Institute (HM) St. Paul Baptist Church (HM)
Florence County Effingham The Assassination of Rep. Alfred Rush (HM) Florence and vicinity Civil Rights Sit-Ins (HM) Ebony Guest House (NR) Historic Downtown African American Business District (HM) Jamestown Historic District (CP) William H. Johnson Birthplace (HM) Roseville Plantation Slave and Freedman's Cemetery (HM) Trinity Baptist Church (HM) Lake City Greater St. James A.M.E. Church (HM) The Lynching of Frazier Baker (HM) Joshua Braveboy Plantation (HM) Wilson School/Wilson High School (HM) Mars Bluff vicinity Gregg-Wallace Farm Tenant House (HM/NR) Hewn-Timber Cabins (HM) Jamestown (HM) Mt. Zion Methodist Church (HM) Mt. Zion Rosenwald School (HM/NR) Salem United Methodist Church (HM) Slave Houses, Gregg Plantation (NR)
Georgetown County
Rural Georgetown County: Arundel Plantation Slave House (CP) Keithfield Plantation (NR) Pee Dee River Rice Planters Historic District (NR)