Richland County · Marker 40-33

South Carolina Female Collegiate Institute

Two Notch Rd. (U.S. Hwy. 1), near Covenant Rd., Dentsville community, Columbia

Front inscription

At Barhamville, about ½ mi. west of this point, a famous girls' school, founded by Dr. Elias Marks (1790-1886), was located 1828-65. Among the students were Anna Maria, daughter of John C. Calhoun; Ann Pamela Cuningham, founder of Mt. Vernon Ladies' Association; Martha Bulloch, mother of President Theodore Roosevelt.

County
Richland
Region
Midlands
City or vicinity
Columbia
Year approved
1938
Erected by
Columbia Sesquicentennial Commission of 1936
Coordinates
34.027933, -81.009767

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