Red Hill School

Front inscription

This frame building was constructed in 1927-28 to house a school for African American families of Red Hill and surrounding communities. Its $2900 cost was paid by local Black residents, the school district, and the Julius Rosenwald Fund. Red Hill was one of nearly 5,000 Rosenwald schools built for southern Black children from 1917 to 1932, including approx. 500 in S.C.

Reverse inscription

By the 1930s, Red Hill School had an enrollment of approx. 140 pupils in grades 1-7 with three teachers. It later enrolled students through the tenth grade, and it served as a junior high in the early 1950s. When Red Hill closed in 1955, two teachers instructed 51 eighth graders. Kershaw Co. School District sold the property in 1956 to a local family who turned it into a private residence.