Richland County · Marker 40-167
Minervaville
intersection of Cabin Creek Rd. & Minervaville Rd., Minervaville (Hopkins vicinity)
Front inscription
Minervaville, between Cabin Branch and Cedar Creek, was an early 19th-century community. Named after the Minerva Academy, founded in 1802 with William J. Bingham as its headmaster, Minervaville appears on Robert Mills’s Atlas of S.C. (1825). It was later a station on the S.C. Railroad, with a post office 1831-1835. The area declined after the Minerva Academy closed in 1834.