Barnwell County Courthouse

Barnwell County Courthouse is a South Carolina historical marker in Blackville, Barnwell County, dedicated 2001.

Barnwell County · dedicated 2001 · E side of Solomon Blatt Ave. (S.C. Hwy. 3) between Pascallas and Reynolds Sts., Blackville, Blackville

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The county courthouse was on this site from 1871 to 1874. In 1869 Republican state senator Charles P. Leslie, a native of New York, sponsored an act to move the county seat from Barnwell to Blackville. Court was first held in a church until a two-story brick courthouse was built at a cost of $8000. After the county seat returned to Barnwell the courthouse housed Blackville Academy, later a public school.

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Marker data: South Carolina Historical Marker Program, SC Department of Archives and History
Sponsored by Barnwell County Council

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