Summerton High School Explained

Summerton High School
Location:S. Church St., Summerton, South Carolina
Coordinates:33.6067°N -80.3431°W
Architect:Wessigner, Jesse Walter; Stork, Robert Caughman
Architecture:Late 19th And 20th Century Revivals
Added:August 26, 1994
Refnum:94001048

Summerton High School, also known as Summerton Middle School, is a historic school building located at Summerton, Clarendon County, South Carolina. It was built in 1936, and is a one-story hip roofed, rectangular brick building. It has a central pavilion featuring a pedimented gable, supported by four cast stone plasters. Summerton High School is the only school still standing of the five schools in Clarendon County School District #22 that were associated with Briggs v. Elliott, the South Carolina case which was one of the cases consolidated with Brown v. Board of Education.[1] [2] As of 2022 the building is used as administrative offices for Clarendon County School District #1.

It was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1994. In 2022 it and the former Scott’s Branch High School were designated part of Brown v. Board of Education National Historical Park.[3]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Summerton High School, Clarendon County (S. Church St., Summerton). National Register Properties in South Carolina. South Carolina Department of Archives and History. 25 February 2014.
  2. Web site: J. Tracy Power and Andrew W. Chandler . July 1994 . Summerton High School . National Register of Historic Places nomination . NRHP . May 13, 2022.
  3. Web site: 2022-05-12 . President Biden Signs Law to Expand and Redesignate Brown v. Board of Education National Historical Park . 2022-05-13 . U.S. Department of the Interior . en.