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MAYESVILLE INSTITUTE
Mayesville Institute. Mayesville.
s. c.
Miss EInIn8 J. Wilson. Principal
THE Mayesville Institute is a product of the development
of a small school organized in 1892 by Miss Emma J.
Wilson, who, through sympathetic aid, so uccessfully
managed its affairs that in 1896 it was incorporated under the
laws of South Cal"Olina as the Mayesville Educational and
Industrial In titute. The
school is located fifty miles
east of Columbia, thirty
• miles west of Florence,
twenty-three miles north of
Manning, and eighteen
mile south of Bishopville,
thus being in the mid t of a
dense population of Negro
youth who need to be supplied
with a good education.
There are five substantial
building. The main building
i a large structure,
forty-five by eventy-eight
feet. The first floor is used
'for a chapel and two classrooms,
the second for six
•
EMMA J. WILSON class-rooms, and the third
for the boys' dormitory. The home for the girl i a two- tory
brick structure containing twenty rooms occupied by the girl
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and some of the teachers. The trades building is a substantial
brick structure with three commodious room where variou
trades for boys are taught. The brick. for this buildinO' were
made by the students under a competent instruC""tor. and the
building wa erected by the students in the brick-laying
department.
The teachers' cottage, a neat eleven-room structure frame,
was erected by the students. It repre ents an effort at self-help,
as the colored people of the community contribute(about 500
towards it.
DRESSMAKING CLASS
The property is valued at $30,000. The annual expenses are
about $7,000. Of this amount $250 is ecured from publicschool
fund , the balance from ~orthern and Southern philanthropists.
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