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Schofield was also the site for a summer Colored Teachers’ Institute where teaching methods, teacher qualifications, and community-school relations were discussed.

When the Freedmen’s Bureau School was closed in 1871, a small inheritance enabled Schofield to purchase land and construct a larger private residential school, which was later known as the Schofield Normal and Industrial School.

Seaboard Coast Line (Atlantic Coast Line) Railway Station Hardeeville, S.C. February, 1972

Seaboard Coast Line (Atlantic Coast Line) Railway Station Laurens, S.C. March, 1969

Southern Coast Line Railway Depot Lake City, S.C. 1986

For Scots, one of the attractions of Carolina was religious liberty. The proprietors guaranteed it, and Scottish Covenanters stood ready to emigrate for it.

Well intentioned but ineffective, Scott was unable to sustain the confidence of many Republicans and was thoroughly despised by almost every Democrat.

Scott became only the sixth African American to serve in the United States Senate, as well as the first African American to represent South Carolina in that body.

Scattered along the state’s approximately 185 miles of coastline, South Carolina’s Sea Islands shelter the mainland from storms and erosion.

The Sea Pines Plantation Company was incorporated in 1957 by Charles E. Fraser of Georgia to develop the southern third of Hilton Head Island into a residential, recreational, and resort community.