Barnwell County · Marker 06-12
Barnwell County Courthouse
E side of Solomon Blatt Ave. (S.C. Hwy. 3) between Pascallas and Reynolds Sts., Blackville
Front inscription
The county courthouse was on this site from 1871 to 1874. In 1869 Republican state senator Charles P. Leslie, a native of New York, sponsored an act to move the county seat from Barnwell to Blackville. Court was first held in a church until a two-story brick courthouse was built at a cost of $8000. After the county seat returned to Barnwell the courthouse housed Blackville Academy, later a public school.