Liberty Colored High School | |
.JPG) Rosewood Center in 2009 | |
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| Location | Jct. of SC 93 and Rosewood St., Liberty, Pickens County, South Carolina, U.S. |
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| Coordinates | 34°47′24″N 82°41′23″W / 34.7899°N 82.6896°W |
| Area | 1.4 acres (0.57 ha) |
| Built | 1937 |
| Architect | Works Progress Administration |
| Architectural style | Late 19th And 20th Century Revivals |
| NRHP reference No. | 03000270[1] |
| Added to NRHP | April 18, 2003 |
Liberty Colored High School is a former high school for African-American students in Liberty, South Carolina during the period of racial segregation. It originally was called Liberty Colored Junior High School.[2] The building is now a community center known as the Rosewood Center.[3] It is at East Main Street (South Carolina Highway 93) and Rosewood Street in Liberty. The school was built in 1937 on the site of a Rosenwald school that had burned down.[2][4]
Because of its role in the education of local African-American students, it was named to the National Register of Historic Places on April 18, 2003.[1][2][5][6]
- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
- ^ a b c Sauls, Bradley S.; Sheriff, G. Anne; Johnson, Luther Jr (May 2002). "Liberty Colored High School" (PDF). National Register of Historic Places Inventory - Nomination Form. National Park Service. Retrieved 8 October 2009.
- ^ "City of Liberty". Retrieved 8 October 2009.
- ^ "Rosenwald Schools County : Pickens" (PDF). South Carolina’s Rosenwald School Buildings Database. South Carolina Department of Archives & History. Retrieved 8 October 2009.
- ^ "Liberty Colored High School, Pickens County ( E. Main St. & Rosewood St., Liberty)". National Register Properties in South Carolina. South Carolina Department of Archives and History. Retrieved 8 October 2009.
- ^ State Historic Preservation Office (March 2007). "African American Historic Places in South Carolina" (PDF). South Carolina Department of Archives and History. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 30, 2009. Retrieved 8 October 2009.