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note: Many of the historic
sites found in the Pendleton District
are listed on the Attractions-Museums page. |
Anderson
County
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| Anderson |
| East
Church Street Business District |
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A plaque
with a time capsule beneath it marks the site of Anderson’s
former Black Business District. Restaurants, tailor shops, barber
shops, cab companies, funeral homes, hotels, doctor and dentist
offices, and more businesses flourished on East Church Street
from the 1920s through the 1950s. |
| Located
in the City Parking Lot on Church Street in Anderson. |
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| Pendleton |
| African-American
Heritage Walking Tour |
| Come
explore African-American heritage in Pendleton through this
self-guided tour to ten sites. The sites you will visit on your
tour represent a work-in-progress. Several have been saved by
individuals, families and groups who cared; others are being
restored through community effort. |
Pendleton
Foundation for Black History and Culture
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Box 806, Pendleton, SC 29670 |
| Hours:
Self-guided tour (maps available at Pendleton District Commission) |
| Admission:
FREE |
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| St.
Paul's Episcopal Church |
| An
1822 Episcopal church, St. Paul's had many African-American
members in antebellum times, and the slave gallery still remains.
The records of the church's Black communicants, including marriages
and deaths, are available at the Pendleton District Commission's
Research Rooms. |
Located
on East Queen Street in Historic Pendleton. Daily exterior
viewing. (Interior included on pre-arranged guided group tours.)
1-800-862-1795. |
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| Woodburn
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| Jane
E. Hunter, founder of the Phillis Wheatley Association, was
born on this ca. 1830 plantation in 1882. |
Located
on History Lane (across Highway 76 from Tri-County Technical
College), Pendleton. |
| Woodburn
is operated as a house museum by the Pendleton Historic Foundation.
April-October, Sundays 2 - 6 p.m. or by appointment. (864)646-7249
or 1-800-862-1795. |
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Oconee
County
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| Seneca |
| Site
of Seneca Institute |
| Begun
in 1899 by J.J. Stark for the Sunday School and Baptist Training
Union Educational Convention of the Seneca River Baptist Association.
By 1915 there were two large buildings on a twenty acre campus
and in 1929 the number had grown to eight. At one time this
was the only High School available for Blacks in the area. The
name was changed to Seneca Junior College in 1926 and it closed
in 1939. The buildings were razed in 1963. In 1978 the Seneca
Institute Family Life Center was constructed on the old school
site by the Seneca River Baptist Association. A small log house
to the right of the Family Life Center is the only remaining
school structure. |
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W. South Third and S. Poplar Street, Seneca. Exterior viewing
only. |
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| Old
St. James Methodist Episcopal Church |
| Now
home to the New Harmony United Methodist congregation, the original
ca. 1876 building is the core of the present structure. |
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207 W. S. Second Street, Seneca. Exterior viewing only. |
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Pickens
County
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| Central |
| Central
Community Center |
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Formerly
the Central African-American School, built before 1925, used
as a school until 1957, then became the community center.
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114 West Main Street, Central. Open by appointment only. (864)
639-2115 |
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| Freedom's
Hill Church |
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Built
in 1847 in the Snow Camp community of Alamance County, North
Carolina. The first Wesleyan Methodist Church in the South,
begun by a congregation which was against slavery. Moved to
this site in 1999. |
725 Wesleyan Drive, Southern Wesleyan University campus, Central.
(864) 644-5000 or 639-2453. |
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| Pumpkintown |
| Soapstone
Baptist Church |
Formed
in the late 1860s by freed slaves. |
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Still used on a regular basis. Soapstone outcropping still on
site. Outside viewing only. Take Highway 8 North out of Pickens
to Highway 288 and turn right. Follow road and turn left on
first paved road (Liberia Road), go about one mile and church
is on right. |
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