Pine Grove Rosenwald School

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This school, built in 1923 at a cost of $2,500, is one of 500 African-American schools in S.C. funded

in part by the Julius Rosenwald Foundation from 1917 to 1932. It is a two-room school typical of smaller Rosenwald schools.

From 1923 to 1950 an average of 40-50 students a year attended this school, in grades 1-7.

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This school closed after the 1949-50 school year, when many districts were consolidated. It was sold to the Pine Grove

Community Development Club in 1968, then to the Richland County Recreation Commission in 2002. Pine Grove

Rosenwald School was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.

Marker is on Piney Woods Road (State Road 40-674), on the left when traveling south.

Courtesy hmdb.org

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HMDB