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A plaque on Church Street in Anderson commermorates Anderson's former Church Street Business District. Restaurants, tailors, barber shops, cab companies, funeral homes, hotels, doctor and dentist offi... [more] |
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Built in 1937 by WPA workers and students, the Faith Cabin Library is one of the few remaining examples of the libraries built for African-American students througout South Carolina and Georgia as par... [more] |
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Freedom's Hill Church was the first Wesleyan Church (1848) built in the South and housed an anti-slavery congregation. Erected in Alamance County, North Carolina, the church was moved to the campus of... [more] |
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Constructed c. 1900, Ben Keese occupied this former cafe and antique shop, which served as a gathering place for Pendleton's African-American community for many years. It is thought to have been built... [more] |
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Kings Chapel AME Church was organized in 1869 as the "Colored Methodist Episcopal Church" and was established on this site in 1889. Rebuilt in 1957. It has been said that the original proper... [more] |
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Kings Chapel Cemetery contained the oldest dated graves of African-American residents of Pendleton, including a gravestone marked "Lucinda" placed by the familiy who owned her as a slave. Co... [more] |
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One original building, a small log structure, remains at the site of the Seneca Institute, an African-American High School and College which oeprated on a twenty-acre campus in Seneca from 1899-1939. ... [more] |
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In 1874, African-American Baptists in Pendleton founded Silver Spring Church. Many youth received their early education there, including Jane Hunter who went on to found the nationwide Phillis Wheatle... [more] |
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This training school for African-American high school students, opened in 1923. Students attended here, then later Riverside High, until integration. A remaining portion of the school now serves as a ... [more] |
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This well-known club, built by Horace Littlejohn, was visited by musicians such as Ray Charles, James Brown, Harry Belafonte and "Piano Red." The Littlejohn Community Center now occupies the... [more] |
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Historic marker placed July 5, 1995. Founded shortly after the Civil War and attended for three years by Pendleton native Jane Hunter (1882-1971), founder of the Phillis Wheatley Society. Contact the ... [more] |
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Soapstone Church is one of the oldest African-American churches in the Upstate. Freed men who settled here after the Civil War built the church in the late 1860s. A soapstone outcropping on the site g... [more] |
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The Howard-Morse house was an early boarding house for African-American teachers and was buitl around an original 19th century structure. Jane Hunter stayed here on her trips home to Pendleton. Privat... [more] |
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Built at teh turn of the century by the Rev. Augustus Vance, early pastor of Kings Chapel and trustee of the first African-American school in Pendleton. Privately owned. For more information, contact ... [more] |
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This c. 1830 four-story clapboard house was built by Charles Coteswoth Pinckney of Charleston as a summer home. In 1852, a prominent and wealthy Presbyterian ministuer, Dr. John B. Adger purchased the... [more] |
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