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FISK HALL, MAIN BUILDING, CLAFLIN UNIVERSITY, ORANGEBURG, S. C.
Claflin University, Orangeburg, S. C.
Rev. L. M. Dunton, D.D., President
The Manual Training Building
In 1883 the trustee of the John later Fund e tablished a
manual training department-; a large building with equipment,
costing $40,000 wa erected, and the fund provide $5,000
annually for the payment of the alarie of the instructors.
The Library building known a Lee Library, the gift of
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fro Everett O. Fi k, Mr. Jobn Harney, and other. It wa
named in honor of Mr . Mary E. Dunton, wife of the pr ident
of laflin. Mr. Dunton has been a teacher in the universih' •
ince October, 1884.
In 1908 the Tingley Memorial embly Hall, co ting $40,000.
was erected by !fro . H. Tingley in memory of hi wife.
The univer ity has pecial funds amounting to 16,500. The
annual expense of the chool are 20,000. The annual appropriation
of ,000 from the later Fund and 500 from the
Freedmen' Aid ciety are u ed exclu ively for the payment of
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Mr. P. L. Bennett. of Wilke barre, Pa.. co t 10,000. It
contain a readinO' and ref, r nce room a tack room, 5,600
bound volumes and 3600 unbound volume. with a larO'e Ii t of
new paper, magazine, etc.
Tbe Loui oule Home for Girl accommodal about one
bundred elf-boardinlr girl. It i named after Mr . Loui e
oule , tbe large t contributor to its erection.
In 1907 the Mary E. Dunton Hall, a three- tory brick building,
with dormitory accommodation for 250 boys. was erected
at a cost of $35,000. The donor were Mr. Andrew Carnegie, ,
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Remarkable Growth
CLAFLIN UNIVERSITY, founded in 1869, by the Freedmen's
Aid Societ:' of the Methodi t Epi copal Church, wa
established largely through the generosity of Hon. Lee
Claflin and family, of Massachusetts. .
The institution occupies the original site of the OranO'eburg
Female Seminary, a tract of six acres, to which has been added
sixty-eight acres of adjoining land.
In 1872 the South Carolina Col-lege
of Agriculture and Mechanic
In titute for colored students was
located at Orangeburg and an experimental
farm of 116 acres adjoining
the Claflin property was purchased.
The two institutions were placed
u n de ron e management and so
remained until 1896, when in obedience
to the action of the General Conference
of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, which declared against tbe
union of Cburcb and State, Claflin
separated from the state in titution.
The growth of Claflin University ba
been remarkable. Tbe property is
valued at $277,000. Tbe campus and
farms pre ent a very attractive appearance.
The main building is Fisk Hall,
valued at $67,000, named in honor of Mr. Everett O. Fisk, of
Bo ton. Mas ., who bas been for years a generou friend of tbe
in titution,
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