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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

Aiken County

Allendale County

Anderson County

Bamberg County

Barnwell County

Beaufort County

Brick Church, Penn School (Beaufort County, South Carolina)
Brick Church at Penn Center

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

Old Marine Hospital (Charleston)
Old Marine Hospital/Jenkin's Orphanage

Cherokee County

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

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

Edgefield County

Fairfield County

Florence County

Georgetown County

Bernard M. Baruch, Negro quarters, with church, Hobcaw Plantation, residence in (Georgetown County, South Carolina) 5a31128r
Friendfield Church at Hobcaw Barony
  • Rural Georgetown County:
    • Arundel Plantation Slave House (CP)
    • Keithfield Plantation (NR)
    • Pee Dee River Rice Planters Historic District (NR)
  • Georgetown and vicinity
  • Murrells Inlet vicinity
    • Richmond Hill Plantation Archeological Sites (NR)
  • Pawley's Island
    • Cedar Grove Plantation Chapel (NR)
    • St. John A.M.E. Church (HM)
  • Sandy Island
    • Sandy Island School (NR)

Greenville County

  • Belton vicinity
    • Holly Springs School (NR)
  • Fountain Inn
    • Bryson High School (HM)
    • Fountain Inn Principal’s House and Teacherage (NR)
    • Fountain Inn Rosenwald School (HM)
  • Greenville
    • Allen Temple A.M.E. Church (NR)
    • Brutontown (HM)
    • Claussen Bakery (HM)
    • John Wesley Methodist Episcopal Church (NR)
    • Greenville County Courthouse/Willie Earle Lynching Trial (HM)
    • Matoon Presbyterian Church (CP)
    • Little Texas (HM)
    • Matoon Presbyterian Church (CP)
    • Richland Cemetery (NR)
    • Sterling High School (HM)
    • Working Benevolent Society Hospital (HM)
    • Working Benevolent Temple and Professional Building (NR)
    • Sterling High School (HM)
  • Simpsonville
    • Cedar Grove Baptist Church /Simpsonville Rosenwald (HM)
    • Old Pilgrim Baptist Church/Old Pilgrim Rosenwald School (HM)
    • Old Pilgrim Baptist Church Cemetery and Kilgore Family Cemetery (NR)

Greenwood County

Hampton County

  • Hampton
  • Gifford
    • Gifford Rosenwald School (HM)
  • Varnville vicinity
    • Steele Missionary School/Zion Fair Colored School (HM)
  • Yemassee
    • Yemassee Rosenwald School/Fennell Elementary School (HM)

Horry County

  • Atlantic Beach
  • Aynor
    • Levister Elementary School (HM)
  • Burgess
    • St. James Rosenwald School (HM)
  • Conway
    • True Vine Missionary Baptist Church (HM)
    • Whittemore School/Whittemore High School (HM)
  • Little River
    • Chestnut Consolidated School/Chestnut Consolidated High School (HM)
  • Loris
    • Loris Training School (HM)
  • Myrtle Beach
    • Charlie’s Place (HM)
    • Myrtle Beach Colored School (HM)
  • Surfside Beach
    • Ark Cemetery (HM)

Jasper County

  • Ridgeland
    • Clementa Carlos Pinckney (HM)
    • Honey Hill/Boyd's Neck Battlefield (NR)
  • Tillman
    • St. Matthew Baptist Church (HM)

Kershaw County

  • Camden
    • Monroe Boykin Park (HM)
    • Bonds Conway House (CP)
    • E.H. Dibble Store/Eugene H. Dibble (HM)
    • Thomas English House (NR)
    • Mather Academy (HM)
    • Red Hill School (HM)
  • Lugoff
    • Ephesus United Methodist Church (HM)

Lancaster County

Laurens County

  • Gray Court
    • Laurens County Training School (HM)
    • Mt. Carmel A.M.E. Church (HM)
  • Laurens
    • Bell Street School/Martha Dendy School ('HM)
    • Bethel A.M.E. Church (NR)
    • Friendship A.M.E. Church & Cemetery/Bell Street Schools (HM)
    • Bethel A.M.E. Church (CP)
    • Charles H. Duckett House (NR)
    • Rich Hill (HM)
    • Saint Paul First Baptist Church (CP)

Lee County

Lexington County

Marion County

Marlboro County

  • Adamsville Crossroads
    • Adamsville School (HM)
  • Bennettsville
    • St. Michael's Methodist Church (CP)
    • “The Gulf” (HM)
    • Marlboro Training High School (HM)
  • Monroe Crossroads
    • Great Pee Dee Presbyterian Church/Pee Dee Missionary Baptist Church HM

Newberry County

Hope School near Pomaria, South Carolina
Hope Rosenwald School

Oconee County

Seneca Institute - Seneca Junior College Library
Library of Seneca Institute - Seneca Junior High

Orangeburg County

Claflin College, Lee Library, College Avenue, Orangeburg (Orangeburg County, South Carolina)
Lee Library at Claflin College

Pickens County

Richland County

Chappelle Administration Building, Allen University (Columbia)
Chapelle Administration Building at Allen University

Saluda County

Spartanburg County

Sumter County

Union County

Williamsburg County

York County

  • Catawba
    • Catawba Rosenwald (NR)
    • Liberty Hill School (HM)
  • Fort Mill
    • George Fish School (HM
  • Hickory Grove
    • St. James Rosenwald School (HM)
  • Newport and vicinity
    • William Hill (HM)
    • William Hill/Hill’s Ironworks (HM)
  • McConnells vicinity
    • Brick House / Lynching of Jim Williams (HM)
  • Rock Hill and vicinity
  • Sharon
    • Blue Branch Church (HM)
  • York
    • Allison Creek Presbyterian Church/African-American Graveyard (HM)
    • Sadler Store (HM/NR)
    • Wright Funeral Home (HM)

See also

African Americans in South Carolina

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