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Louis Booker Wright

Greenwood County · dedicated 1998 · intersection of Maxwell Ave. (S.C. Hwy. 10) and S.C. Hwy. 225 By Pass, in front of the Connie Maxwell Children’s Home, Greenwood, Greenwood

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Louis Booker Wright (1899 1984), scholar of American colonial history and Elizabethan culture, was born in the Phoenix community and spent his early years at Maxwellton near this site. A prolific author, he was educated at Wofford College and received the M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of N.C. He was director of the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington D.C. 1948 68.

David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

Marker data: South Carolina Historical Marker Program, SC Department of Archives and History

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