Loris Training School stood here from 1928 to 1955 as the first school for black students in Loris and nearby communities. Built at a cost of $4,700, it was one of more than 5000 schools in the South funded in part by the Julius Rosenwald Foundation between 1917 and 1932. The school opened in 1928 with grades 1-7 and a six-month term. William P. Johnson, Sr. (1910-2007), the first principal once it became a public school, led the school from 1931 to 1941 and eventually won approval for a nine-month term and for adding grades 8-11. George C. Cooper (1915-1991) was principal from 1941 until the school closed in 1955, when its students were transferred to Finklea Consolidated High School, where Cooper remained principal until that school closed with desegregation in 1970.