Marion County · Marker 34-17
Centenary Rosenwald School
Johnny Odom Dr., Centenary
Front inscription
Centenary Rosenwald School was built here in 1924-25. It was one of 500 rural schools in S.C. for blacks, constructed with partial funding from the Julius Rosenwald Foundation from 1917 to 1932. A two-room frame school, it was built at a cost of $2,100. An average of 125 students a year attended, at first in grades 1-7 but later adding grades 8-12. Centenary School closed in 1954.
Terrell's Bay High School
Terrell’s Bay High School was built in 1954 by the equalization program intended to preserve segregation by building new schools for blacks. It, a new Terrell’s Bay Elementary, and a new Pleasant Grove Elementary replaced Centenary Rosenwald School and Rains Colored School. Terrell’s Bay High was desegregated in 1970. It closed in 2003 when two county school districts were consolidated.