Central School, Hwy. 191, Johnston vicinity, SC. Photo by Haley Grant, 2009.

Wednesday, February 20, 2013

School Identification...Finally!

I've finally indentified a school that I photographed  back in 2009. This school is my hallmark rural school-- the one you see featured in the blog heading.

Central School ca. 2009, photo by Haley Grant.
This building was the Central School, located in the Trenton/Johnston vicinity in Edgefield County. I'm not sure, at this time, when it was built, but the USGS map citation is from a 1935 soil conservation map. Also, it looks to me, in my experience with early 20th century schoolhouses, to have been built from 1920-1935. Future research will tell me more. I'm suspending my research into the Coleman Ridge School to take this one on. Why? A current photograph from the South Carolina National Heritage Corridor shows the roof caved in and it just fills me with a sense of urgency to find out more about this piece of our rural built environment before it vanishes.

Central School in 2013, photo by South Carolina Naitonal Heritage Corridor.

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