St. James Rosenwald School stood here from the late 1920s until the early 1970s as one of several African-American schools in Horry County funded in part by the Julius Rosenwald Foundation. Built in 1928 or 1929, it was a five-room frame schoolhouse typical of the larger rural schools built by the Rosenwald Foundation between 1917 and 1932. Rev. Smart Small, Sr., assisted by Eugene Beaty, Dave Carr, Henry Small, and Richard Small, Sr., led fundraising efforts. The school educated about 150 students a year in grades 1-10 with five or six teachers. It had two principals, Eula G. Owens and, after her, her husband, Boyd Williams Owens. It closed in 1970 after desegregation.