- Title
- Era of progress and promise, 1863-1910 : the religious, moral, and educational development of the American Negro since his emancipation
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- Date
- 1910
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- Creator
- ["Hartshorn, W. N. (William Newton), 1843-1920."]
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- Place
- ["North Carolina, United States"]
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Era of progress and promise, 1863-1910 : the religious, moral, and educational development of the American Negro since his emancipation
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MAYESVILLE INSTITUTE
Mayesville Institute, Mayesville,
S. C.
Miss Emma 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 successfully
managed its affairs that in 1890 it was incorporated under the
laws of South Carolina as the Mayesville Educational and
Industrial Institute. The
school is located fifty miles
east of Columbia, thirty
miles west of Florence,
twentv-three miles north of
Ш1
Manning, and eighteen
miles south of Bishopville,
thus being in the midst of a
dense population of Negro
youth who need to be sup¬
plied with a good education.
There are five substantial
buildings. The main build¬
ing is a large structure,
forty-five by seventy-eight
feet. The first floor is used
for a chapel and two class¬
rooms, the second for six
emma j. wilson class-rooms, and the third
for the boys’ dormitory. The home for the girls is a two-story
brick structure containing twenty rooms occupied by the girls
and some of the teachers. The trades building is a substantial
brick structure with three commodious rooms where various
trades for boys are taught. The bricks for this building were
made by the students under a competent instructor, and the
building was erected by the students in the brick-laying
department.
The teachers’ cottage, a neat eleven-room structure frame,
was erected by the students. It represents an effort at self-help,
as the colored people of the community contributedjabout $500
towards it.
DRESSMAKING CLASS
The property is valued at $30,000. The annual expenses are
about $7,000. Of this amount $250 is secured from public-
school funds, the balance from Northern and Southern philan¬
thropists.
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