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.
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.
Hamer Hall is a historic home located near Hamer, Dillon County, South Carolina. It was built about 1890, and is a two-story, brick dwelling in the Late Victorian style. The house contains 14 rooms and has three large porches. It has a corner turret and the roof is a combination of hipped and gable modes. The front facade features a one-story piazza with very elaborate ornamentation fashioned with chisel, gouge and lathe. Also on the property are three barns, a windmill, and a water tank.
Beaty-Little House is an historic home located at Conway in Horry County, South Carolina. It was built about 1855 and is a two-story, rectangular, central hall plan residence with a hipped roof and two interior brick chimneys. It features a full-width, hipped-roof porch across the front façade with freestanding Tuscan-influenced columns and an elaborately sawn balustrade.
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.
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.
Carroll Place, also known as Old Carroll Place, is a historic plantation house located near St. George, Dorchester County, South Carolina.
James C. Self House is a historic home in Greenwood, South Carolina, designed by local architect Thomas White Cothran (1874-1923) for textile magnate and philanthropist James Cuthbert Self (1876-1955) and built in 1917–1918. The house is a two-story, brick veneer Neoclassical style dwelling with a green Spanish tile hipped roof. It sits on a brick foundation faced with rock and an Ionic order portico that projects from the three central bays. The property includes a smokehouse/wellhouse and garage.
William Harrison Sapp House is a historic home located near Tradesville, Lancaster County, South Carolina. It was built about 1897, and extensively remodeled in 1912. It is a two-story Colonial Revival style frame residence with a one-story rear projection. It features a one-story hipped-roof wraparound porch, supported by Tuscan order columns. A small one-story gable-front frame drug store/office built in 1912, is located on the property. Dr. William Harrison Sapp (1866-1946), was a prominent local physician and farmer.
Dennis High School, also known as Dennis Elementary School and Dennis Primary School, is a historic high school building for African-American students located at Bishopville, Lee County, South Carolina. White students attended Bishopville High School, three blocks away. Although the law provided for a separate but equal education, $71,000 was allocated to build Bishopville for the whites while only Dennis was built for $17,000. The expenditures for student at BHS were $48.38 per student, but only $5.68 for each Black student at Dennis. When Dennis High School later burned down, the Black students were just made to double up with the elementary students for 12 years. Dennis was the only school in the county for black students, and no public bus service was provided until 1952.
James Carnes House, also known as "The Myrtles," is a historic home located at Bishopville, Lee County, South Carolina. It was built about 1836, and is a two-story, Greek Revival style frame house. It has a gable roof, weatherboard siding, brick foundation and stuccoed exterior end brick chimneys. The house features a large, two-story, pedimented portico on the front façade, with four larger square, frame columns with Doric order motif capitals. A large 1+1⁄2-story addition was added to the rear about 1900, when the house was made into a boarding house.
Thomas Fraser House, also known as Woodham House and Gregg House, is a historic home located at Bishopville, Lee County, South Carolina. It was built in 1847, and is a two-story, vernacular Greek Revival style house with a gable roof, weatherboard siding and a brick foundation. The front façade features a one-story porch supported by six round brick and stucco columns with prominent bases and Doric order capitals. At the rear of the house is the original kitchen, remodeled about 1900 into a farm office.
William Rogers House, also known as Tindal House, is a historic home located at Bishopville, Lee County, South Carolina. It was built about 1845, and is a two-story, vernacular Greek Revival style house. The front façade features a large two-story pedimented portico. This portico has four large square, frame columns with Doric order capitals. William Rogers' grandson was Thomas G. McLeod, who served as South Carolina's governor from 1923 to 1927. During his childhood McLeod was a frequent visitor to this home.
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.
Spencer House, also known as the Gene McLendon House, is a historic home located at Bishopville, Lee County, South Carolina. It was built about 1845, and is a two-story, vernacular Greek Revival style house. It features a two-story, pedimented portico supported by four square frame pillars with Doric order capitals. The house has a one-story, gable roofed rear ell with a large exterior brick chimney. It is very similar in floor plan and appearance to the William Rogers House.
Tall Oaks, also known as the S. McLendon House, is a historic home located at Bishopville, Lee County, South Carolina. It was built about 1847, and is a two-story, vernacular Greek Revival style house. It has a hipped roof and rests on a brick foundation. On the front façade is a two-story, gable-roofed pedimented portico with four large stuccoed brick columns and Doric order capitals. An original brick kitchen still stands behind 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.
David Jefferson Griffith House is a historic home located near Gilbert, Lexington County, South Carolina. It was built in 1896, and is a rectangular, two-story frame, weatherboarded Late Victorian farmhouse with a standing seam metal hipped roof. It has a one-story, gable-roofed ell. The front façade features a two-tiered decorated porch. Also on the property is a hip-roofed well house.
