Hampton Colored School


Hampton Colored School
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Hampton Colored School, January 2006
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Location	W. Holly St. E. of jct. with Hoover St., Hampton, South Carolina
Coordinates	32°52′05″N 81°07′14″W / 32.86814°N 81.12058°W / 32.86814; -81.12058Coordinates: 32°52′05″N 81°07′14″W / 32.86814°N 81.12058°W / 32.86814; -81.12058
Area	2.8 acres (1.1 ha)
Built	1929 (1929)
Built by	Johnson, Ervin
NRHP Reference #	91000233^[1]
Added to NRHP	February 28, 1991

Hampton Colored School is a historic school for African-American students located at Hampton, Hampton County, South Carolina. It was built in 1929, and is a one-story, front-gable, rectangular, frame building. It has clapboard siding, a tin roof, exposed rafters, and a brick pier foundation. It remained the only black school in Hampton until 1947, when Hampton Colored High School was built and the Hampton Colored School became the lunchroom for the high school.^[2]^[3]

The Hampton Colored School Museum and Resource Center is owned by the Town of Hampton and operated as a museum of area African American history.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.^[1]

References

1 2 National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
↑ Ruth W. Mitchell (March 1999). "Hampton Colored School" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. Retrieved June 2014. Check date values in: |access-date= (help)
↑ "Hampton Colored School, Hampton County (W. Holly St., Hampton)". National Register Properties in South Carolina. South Carolina Department of Archives and History. Retrieved June 2014. Check date values in: |access-date= (help)

External links

Media related to Hampton Colored School (Hampton, South Carolina) at Wikimedia Commons
Hampton Colored School Museum and Resource Center - Town of Hampton

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