Orangeburg County includes a wide range of historic and cultural sites that reflect its educational, architectural, agricultural, railroad, artistic, and natural heritage. The Orangeburg County Parish House, built in the 1830s, is thought to be one of the oldest plantation summer homes in the area and was later acquired by the Church of the Epiphany for church activities before becoming a restaurant and gift shop. The Holly Hill Depot, built in the 1890s, now serves as the community center, Tri-County Regional Chamber of Commerce, and visitor center. Norway High School, first known as Willow School and later as Norway High School, was built in 1926 and after closing was slated for reuse as a multi-use building with a visitor center and auditorium. Old Springfield High School, built in 1929 and renovated, serves as a visitors' welcome center with exhibits on education and community life as well as a 4,000 square foot auditorium. Valentine's Store began in the early 1900s under J.L. Valentine, whose farm business included a cotton gin, fertilizer sales, and a general store, and the present store building dates from the 1940s. Branchville Railroad Shrine and Museum stands at the site of the oldest railroad junction in the world and presents the area's railroad history, while the Elloree Heritage Museum depicts rural life in this part of Orangeburg County with exhibits on cotton, farming, and family life. The Santee Cultural Arts and Visitor Center occupies a historic schoolhouse moved from Parker to the town hall complex and provides gallery, meeting, tourism, and visitor space. Claflin University, established in 1869, is one of the oldest historically black universities in the state, with several buildings listed on the National Register of Historic Places and a campus noted for architecture and landscaping. S.C. State University, founded in 1896 as the Colored Normal, Industrial, Agricultural and Mechanical College of South Carolina, includes 10 historic buildings dating from 1917, was renamed South Carolina State College in 1954, became a university in 1992, and includes a large planetarium and the L.P. Stanback museum with African and African-American works. Edisto Memorial Gardens, developed beginning in the 1920s and established in 1926, form the centerpiece of Orangeburg, the Garden City of South Carolina, with thousands of rose plants, azaleas, sculptures, fountains, moss-covered oaks and cypress trees, camellias, cherry trees, a 2,600 foot boardwalk through the Home Wetlands Park and Tupela/Cypress Swamp along the North Fork of the Edisto River, and attractions including the D.P.U. Centennial Park, Sensory Garden, Butterfly Garden, Mountain Brook, Disc Golf Course, Spray Park, and Orangeburg County Fine Arts Center. The county's cultural life also includes performances and exhibits at the Orangeburg County Fine Arts Center, Claflin University, South Carolina State University, the Bluebird Theatre, and Stevenson Auditorium, while historic downtown Orangeburg features changing streetscapes, preserved architecture, antique and specialty shops, and historic cemeteries including the Pioneer Graveyard, Orangeburg Cemetery, Old Presbyterian Cemetery, and Sunnyside Cemetery. Outdoor resources include Hillcrest municipal golf course and a local U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service hatchery that produces fish for stocking as well as shortnose sturgeon for research and development.