Mt. Zion Rosenwald School

Mt. Zion Rosenwald School is a South Carolina historical marker in Mars Bluff, Florence County, dedicated 2002.

Florence County · dedicated 2002 · 5040 Liberty Chapel Rd., Mars Bluff, Mars Bluff

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Front: This school, built in 1925, was the first public school for African American students in the Mars Bluff community. One of more than 5000 schools in the South funded in 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. Reverse: The first school here, a private school built by Mt. Zion Methodist Church in 1870, burned in the early 1920s. Mt. Zion Rosenwald School usually operated on a four- or five-month calendar in which two or three teachers taught grades 1-6. It closed in 1952 when a new Mars Bluff Consolidated School opened. This school was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.

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Marker data: South Carolina Historical Marker Program, SC Department of Archives and History
Sponsored by Mt. Zion United Methodist Church

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