Bishopville is a city in Lee County, South Carolina, United States. The population was 3,471 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Lee County.
Robert E. Lee Academy, also known as Lee Academy, is a co-educational private school in Bishopville, South Carolina, United States. It was established in 1965 as a segregation academy and continued to serve an overwhelmingly white student body in the 2000s, with only three black students among a student body of more than 250 in 2018.
The Lee County Courthouse, built in 1908, is a historic courthouse located at 123 S. Main Street in the city of Bishopville in Lee County, South Carolina. It was designed in the Classical Revival style by Darlington native William Augustus Edwards who designed eight other South Carolina courthouses as well as academic buildings at 12 institutions in Florida, Georgia and South Carolina. Lee County was created in 1902 and this is the only courthouse it has ever had.
Liberty Colored High School is a former high school for African-American students in Liberty, South Carolina during the period of racial segregation. It originally was called Liberty Colored Junior High School. The building is now a community center known as the Rosewood Center. It is at East Main Street and Rosewood Street in Liberty. The school was built in 1937 on the site of a Rosenwald school that had burned down. Because of its role in the education of local African-American students, it was named to the National Register of Historic Places on April 18, 2003.
Mt. Zion Presbyterian Church is a historic Presbyterian church located near Bishopville Lee County, South Carolina. It was built in 1911, and is a linear gable-front, temple-form, two-story brick building in the Neoclassical style. Set upon a raised brick foundation, the building's most imposing feature is its tetrastyle portico featuring a full-width masonry stair with cheek walls and monumental limestone columns and pilasters of the Ionic order. Directly to the rear of the church building is a small, one-story lateral-gabled frame building, constructed in 1851 as Mt. Zion's Session House.
Woodruff High School is a public secondary school in Woodruff, South Carolina, United States, and is the only high school in Spartanburg County School District 4.
Southwark School is a public K-8 school located in the Central South Philadelphia neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is a part of Philadelphia Public Schools.
Central Elementary School is a historic school in Albemarle, North Carolina whose current main building opened in 1925 as Albemarle High School, and whose previous building located next door was named to the National Register of Historic Places in 2015. Additions to the 1925 building were constructed in 1936 and a renovation and expansion completed in 2007. When the renovation was completed, Central Elementary moved from its original building next door. The renovation resulted in the Stanly County's school board being honored by Preservation North Carolina in 2008. The school has 561 students in grades pre-kindergarten to 5th grade and is SACS-accredited.
Monaghan Mill, now the Lofts of Greenville, is a former textile mill (1900–2001) in Greenville, South Carolina, that in the early 21st century was converted into loft apartments. The building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Bishopville High School is a historic high school building located at Bishopville, Lee County, South Carolina. It was built in 1936. When the school built, only white students were allowed to attend, while Black students attended Dennis High School three blocks away. Although the law provided for a separate but equal education, Bishopville was built at a cost of $71,000, while only $17,000 was allotted to build Dennis. Likewise, the expenditures for student were $48.38 per white student, and only $5.68 per Black student. When Dennis High School later burned down, the Black students were just made to double up with the elementary students for 12 years. The original L-shaped building is a two-story, Colonial Revival style masonry structure that rests on a masonry foundation. The rectangular central section features a row of 12 monumental pilasters and two-story flanking, projecting, gabled entrance pavilions. At either end of the central block are symmetrical recessed wings. Additions to the wings of the building were made in 1956, 1965, and 1986.
William Apollos James House is a historic home located at Bishopville, Lee County, South Carolina. It was built in 1903, as a one-story, Folk Victorian cottage with a center gabled dormer. It was enlarged and altered in 1911, in the Colonial Revival style, with the addition of a second story with hipped roof, and a hip-roofed wraparound porch. It was the home of William Apollos James (1857–1930), prominent state representative, agriculturalist, businessman, and community leader of Lee County. Also on the property is a collection of historic and interesting flora in its ornamental and fruit garden, along with mature trees and shrubs. The house serves as the headquarters for the Lee County Historical Society.
The Manor, also known as The Tisdale House, now The Cullifer Manor is an historic home located at Bishopville, Lee County, South Carolina. It was built between 1914 and 1918, and is a two-story, rectangular Neoclassical style brick dwelling. It has a gable roof and two interior brick chimneys. On the front façade is a free-standing, two-story portico with six wooden Corinthian order columns, and a balustrade, and decorative railing along the roofline. Also on the property are two original, one-story brick, hip-roofed buildings which serve as a garage and storage area for the main house.
Bishopville Commercial Historic District is a national historic district located at Bishopville, Lee County, South Carolina. It encompasses 48 contributing buildings in the central business district of Bishopville. All of the commercial buildings are of brick construction with most constructed between 1890 and 1920. All of the buildings are used for commercial purposes such as stores, restaurants, offices and banks. Two important buildings are the Seaboard Coastline Depot and the Palmetto Oil Mill.
South Main Historic District is a national historic district located at Bishopville, Lee County, South Carolina. It encompasses 11 contributing buildings in a residential section of Bishopville. They were constructed between about 1880 and 1925, and is the best remaining concentration of historic residential architecture in Bishopville. The district contains a fine grouping of late-19th and early-20th century residences reflecting the vernacular Queen Anne, Colonial Revival and Bungalow styles.
Ashwood School Gymnasium and Auditorium is a historic school gymnasium and auditorium located at Ashwood near Bishopville, Lee County, South Carolina. It was built in 1938 to serve Ashwood Plantation, the first and largest of the Resettlement Administration (RA) project tracts in South Carolina. The building served as the school and community gymnasium and as an auditorium for dramatic performances and films. It is a one-story building with a simplified Colonial Revival style popular in the 1930s in government-sponsored construction.
Lee County Training School, also known as the W. B. Wicker School, is a historic school building located at Sanford, Lee County, North Carolina. It is a one-story brick building dating to 1927 with additions in 1934 and 1949. The building is characterized by large windows alternating with pilasters and was built by contactor A.L. “Link” Boykin, a leading member of Sanford’s black community. Construction funds were provided in part by the Rosenwald Fund, conceived in the 1910s by Southern black leader and educator Booker T. Washington. The Rosenwald schools were built across the south for black Americans in the early 20th century. It served as Sanford and Lee County's African American high school until it was decommissioned as a high school in 1969. Until the year 2019, classes for grade school were last held at the school in the late 1980s. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.
Mars Hill High School, also known as Mars Hill School and Mars Hill Elementary School, is a historic high school building located at Mars Hill, Madison County, North Carolina. It was built between 1936 and 1938 by the Works Progress Administration (WPA) and is a one-story native stone building in the WPA Rustic style. It consists of two sections: a rear-facing "L"-shaped classroom block and a gymnasium wing Mars Hill High School continued to serve the community as a high school until a new high school was built in 1973. The building housed middle and elementary school students until 2001.
Washington Magnet Elementary School is a historic school and building located at Raleigh, Wake County, North Carolina. It was built in 1923-1924 to serve African-American students in Raleigh and is now a magnet elementary school.
W. E. B. DuBois School, also known as Wake Forest Graded School (Colored), Wake Forest Colored High School, and Wake Forest-Rolesville Middle School, is a historic Rosenwald School building and school complex located at Wake Forest, Wake County, North Carolina. The elementary school was built in 1926, consists of a one-story, seven bay, brick veneer, main block with a rear ell and Colonial Revival style design elements. It has a side gable roof and front portico. The High School Building was built in 1939 with funds provided by the Public Works Administration. It is a one-story, rectangular brick block with a hipped roof and slightly projecting gabled portico. The Agriculture Building/Shop was brought to this site in 1942. It is a one-story, "L"-shaped brick building, with the addition built about 1952–1953.
Rapid City High School (RCHS), formerly the Dakota Junior High School and then the Dakota Middle School, is an alternative high school at 601 Columbus Street, Rapid City, South Dakota. Established in 1923, the building served as the first site of Rapid City Central High School until it moved to a new facility on Mount Rushmore Road North. Rapid City High School also hosts the Performing Arts Center of Rapid City. The school building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on June 28, 2010.
