Summerton High School, also known as Summerton Middle School, is a historic school building located at Summerton, Clarendon County, South Carolina. It was built in 1936, and is a one-story hip roofed, rectangular brick building. It has a central pavilion featuring a pedimented gable, supported by four cast stone plasters. Summerton High School is the only school still standing of the five schools in Clarendon County School District #22 that were associated with Briggs v. Elliott, the South Carolina case which was one of the cases consolidated with Brown v. Board of Education.[2][3] As of 2022 the building is used as administrative offices for Clarendon County School District #1.
Summerton High School | |
 Summerton High School, November 2012 | |
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| Location | S. Church St., Summerton, South Carolina |
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| Coordinates | 33°36′24″N 80°20′35″W / 33.60667°N 80.34306°W |
| Area | 1.8 acres (0.73 ha) |
| Built | 1936 |
| Architect | Wessigner, Jesse Walter; Stork, Robert Caughman |
| Architectural style | Late 19th And 20th Century Revivals |
| NRHP reference No. | 94001048[1] |
| Added to NRHP | August 26, 1994 |
It was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.[1] In 2022 it and the former Scott’s Branch High School were designated part of Brown v. Board of Education National Historical Park.[4]
References
edit- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ "Summerton High School, Clarendon County (S. Church St., Summerton)". National Register Properties in South Carolina. South Carolina Department of Archives and History. Retrieved 25 February 2014.
- ^ J. Tracy Power and Andrew W. Chandler (July 1994). "Summerton High School". National Register of Historic Places nomination. NRHP. Retrieved May 13, 2022.
- ^ "President Biden Signs Law to Expand and Redesignate Brown v. Board of Education National Historical Park". U.S. Department of the Interior. 2022-05-12. Retrieved 2022-05-13.
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