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CCU-led Nomination of Building on Final Review of 
National Register of Historic Places<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Sandy Island\nSchool is only one step away from being added to the National Register of\nHistoric Places. The South Carolina State Board of Review approved the\nnomination for the school to be added to the register as a significant cultural,\nhistoric, and architectural space.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Sandy Island\nSchool, located in Georgetown County, served one of the last island communities\nonly accessible by boat. Its construction in 1932 was financed by Archer and\nAnna Hyatt Huntington, the philanthropists who founded Brookgreen Gardens. From\n1932 through 1966, the school taught children in first through eighth grades.\nIt was converted into a senior and community center and later a library for\nisland residents, which is still in use today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The nomination is also significant for its connection to Prince Washington, a leader on Sandy Island, who sold the land to Archer Huntington for the school, ferried the school boat across the Waccamaw, and helped organize adult education courses at the school. Washington led efforts to bring electricity and telephone to the island in 1963 and 1965.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eric Crawford, director of Coastal Carolina University\u2019s Charles Joyner Institute for Gullah and African Diaspora Studies, and Alli Crandell, director of CCU\u2019s Athenaeum Press<\/a>, spearheaded the research and writing of the nomination, collaborating throughout the process with Brookgreen Gardens, Sandy Island community members, and CCU students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Several Sandy\nIsland community members, many of whom are alumni of the school, spoke on the\nsignificance of the nomination at the state board review meeting. Some residents\nspoke from the school building itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Charles Pyatt,\nwho has been a leader in preserving the school, talked about the broad scope of\nthe school\u2019s impact. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe nomination\nhonors the foundation on which the school was built. You think about all the\npeople who were educated here, who have gone on to become doctors, lawyers,\nmilitary officers, and my brother [Isaac Pyatt], who became the Magistrate\nJudge of Georgetown County,\u201d said Pyatt. \u201cIt\u2019s really profound. It\u2019s hard for\nme to put into words what it means.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yvonne\nTucker-Harris linked the school\u2019s history to the island itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMy daughter asks\nabout this big building every time she visits Sandy Island,\u201d said Tucker-Harris.\n\u201cThe story of this school is the story of this community.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The nomination is\npart of the larger Sandy Island Cultural Initiative, a collaborative effort among\nCoastal Carolina University, the Sandy Island Community, Brookgreen Gardens,\nand Georgetown County. This initiative is funded by an African American Civil\nRights grant from the National Park Service, which also supports the planning\nand rehabilitation of the school into a multi-use interpretation and gathering\nspace for the community and visitors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The research team\nfirst drafted the nomination to focus on the community support of the school\nthat created a high-quality education for Sandy Island children, but through\nfurther conversations discovered that the school was an important part of\nvoting rights. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

During the 1950s\nand 1960s, black voters were subject to intimidating citizenship and literacy\ntests that were designed to impede them from voting. Prince Washington and\ncommunity leaders, inspired by the Citizenship School movement near Charleston,\nset up adult courses in the Sandy Island School to help its pupils pass these\nrestrictive tests. Of the 94 reported schools around South Carolina,\nresearchers have previously identified the locations of only four near the\nCharleston area. The team hopes that finding two of these locations\n(Plantersville and Sandy Island) will inspire the identification of other adult\neducation sites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The final step for the school\u2019s addition to the National Register of Historic Places is receiving approval from the Department of the Interior. That is expected to happen in August 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More information about the grant project can be found on the Athenaeum Press’ website: http:\/\/projects.ccu.press\/lowtide\/nps-civil-rights-grant\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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