Hampton Colored School is a historic school for African-American students located at Hampton, Hampton County, South Carolina. It was built in 1929, and is a one-story, front-gable, rectangular, frame building. It has clapboard siding, a tin roof, exposed rafters, and a brick pier foundation. It remained the only black school in Hampton until 1947, when Hampton Colored High School was built and the Hampton Colored School became the lunchroom for the high school.[2][3]
Hampton Colored School | |
 Hampton Colored School, January 2006 | |
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| Location | W. Holly St. E. of jct. with Hoover St., Hampton, South Carolina |
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| Coordinates | 32°52′05″N 81°07′14″W / 32.86814°N 81.12058°W |
| Area | 2.8 acres (1.1 ha) |
| Built | 1929 |
| Built by | Johnson, Ervin |
| NRHP reference No. | 91000233[1] |
| Added to NRHP | February 28, 1991 |
The Hampton Colored School Museum and Resource Center is owned by the Town of Hampton and operated as a museum of area African American history.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.[1]
References
edit- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ Ruth W. Mitchell (March 1999). "Hampton Colored School" (PDF). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. Retrieved 1 June 2014.
- ^ "Hampton Colored School, Hampton County (W. Holly St., Hampton)". National Register Properties in South Carolina. South Carolina Department of Archives and History. Retrieved 1 June 2014.
External links
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Media related to Hampton Colored School (Hampton, South Carolina) at Wikimedia Commons- Hampton Colored School Museum and Resource Center Archived 2015-01-09 at the Wayback Machine - Town of Hampton
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