21-13 Ney School / Back Swamp School
N 34° 16.440 W 079° 43.085
17S E 618004 N 3793280
Historic school buildings in Florence County.
Waymark Code: WM6G1V
Location: South Carolina, United States
Date Posted: 05/28/2009
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NEY SCHOOL
About 1843 Robert Rogers (1808-1882), a planter at "Blooming Grove" in the Back Swamp community of what was then Darlington District, built a plantation schoolhouse and hired Peter Stuart Ney (d. 1846) to teach his children. The original building, moved here in 1870, was later the library for Back Swamp School (1921-1950). In 1970 it was moved to the home of Evander McIver Ervin.
BACK SWAMP SCHOOL
This school, the second on this site, was built in 1921 by Back Swamp residents. As elementary school sometimes known as St. Winifred's, it boasted as many as two teachers and sixty students in some years. When it closed in 1950 its students were transferred to Florence schools; it has since served as the Back Swamp Community Center.
ERECTED BY THE DARLINGTON COUNTY HISTORICAL COMMISSION, 2000
Marker Name: 21-13 Ney School / Back Swamp School
Marker Location: Roadside
Type of Marker: Building
Marker number: 21-13
County: Florence
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