Mt. Zion Rosenwald School

Built in 1925, Mt. Zion Rosenwald School was the first public school for African American students in the Mars Bluff community. It was one of more than 5000 schools in the South funded in part by the Julius Rosenwald Foundation and features a standard two-classroom plan typical of the rural schools the foundation built between 1917 and 1932. The first school on this site, 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, with two or three teachers teaching grades 1-6. It closed in 1952 when the new Mars Bluff Consolidated School opened, and it was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.

South Carolina · United States