Charleston County · Marker 10-33
Maryville
Emanuel A.M.E. Church, 5th Ave., Maryville, S of Ashley River Rd., (S.C. Hwy. 61), Charleston
Front inscription
The town of Maryville, chartered in 1886, included the site of the original English settlement in S.C. and the plantation owned by the Lords Proprietors 1670-99. When the old plantation was subdivided into lots and sold to local blacks in the 1880s, they established a town named for educator and community leader Mary Mathews Just (d. 1902). Though Maryville was widely seen as a model of black "self-government," the S.C. General Assembly revoked the town charter in 1936.