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Existing County | Cultural Resources

About 1843 Robert Rogers (1808-1882), a
planter at "Blooming Grove" in the Back
Swamp community of what was then
Darlington District, built a plantation
34° 16.439′ N, schoolhouse and hired Peter Stuart Ney (d.
21-13 Ney School
79° 43.087′ W 1846) to teach his children. The original
building, moved here in 1870, was later the
library for Back Swamp School (1921-1950).
In 1970 it was moved to the home of
Evander McIver Ervin.
This school, built in 1925, was the first
public school for African American students
in the Mars Bluff community. One of more
Mt. Zion Rosenwald 34° 10.773′ N, than 5000 schools in the South funded in
21-14
School 79° 38.618′ W part by the Julius Rosenwald Foundation, it
features a standard two-classroom plan
typical of the rural schools built by the
foundation between 1917 and 1932.
The African Americans who built the two
hewn-timber cabins that stand 200 yds. S on
Wallace Woods Road were brought to Mars
Bluff as slaves in 1836. They lived in these
34° 11.754′ N,
21-15 Hewn-Timber Cabins cabins on the cotton plantation of J. Eli
79° 38.993′ W
Gregg, in what was then Marion District.
These cabins are the last two of eight that
originally stood in a cotton field at what is
now the center of the university campus.
This church was founded in 1883 by a Rev.
Hill and twenty-five charter members. Early
services were held in a member’s house on
E. Main Street. The congregation purchased
Greater St. James 33° 51.995′ N, a lot at the corner of Lake and N. Church
21-16
A.M.E. Church 79° 45.902′ W Streets in 1885 and built its first sanctuary, a
frame building, that year. That church was
renovated and enlarged in 1917. It was
further renovated, adding a steeple, in
1948-50.

Florence County, SC | Comprehensive Plan pg. 84