Morrison Academy

Morrison Academy is a South Carolina historical marker in Lawtonville, Hampton County, dedicated 1969.

Hampton County · dedicated 1969 · S.C. Sec. Rd. 25-19 at Lawtonville Cemetery, just S of its intersection with S.C. Sec. Rd. 25-39, Lawtonville

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In old Lawtonville Community, across from this site, was the first Morrison Academy, a one-room elementary and college preparatory school. It was later moved 3.4 miles north of here on Orangeburg Road to be near the home of Rev. John Timothy Morrison, headmaster from 1865 to 1905, minister, legislator, Lt. C.S.A.

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Marker data: South Carolina Historical Marker Program, SC Department of Archives and History
Sponsored by Hampton County Tricentennial Commission

Morrison Academy

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